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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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instana saas hosted agent to support aws emr serverless plarform

need to add aws emr serveress platform. it is not supprted based on following link https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-installing-configuring-serverless
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Single Unified Dashboard and Management for Multiple customers

for MSP like us, it is important to have a single dashboard and management pane of Instana for ease of administration, unlike today where each customer has a different URL and support engineers end up logging into different URL for supporting client.
2 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Under review

Map Visualization for reporting

Workforce accounts for a majority of spend and being able to view it in a map view to understand footprint and cost per area would be very helpful. View attached image for a reference. Would like granularity not just based on country but by states...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

For JVM Monitoring customer needs ability to provide application memory leak analysis, lock contentions, process crash analysis

NSB is a Banking customer for Srilanka territory. They are managing thier core banking application with Instana. using Instana for core banking app. Instana Backend (docker development) Deployed in OS: Redhat server 8.8 (Ootpa) Number of reporting...
4 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Needs more information

Improvement of status of file-observer

When the file-observer has the state "finished", there are still some jobs in the background, i.e. indexing in Elasticsearch. The state in the overview of topology-management is irritating, as the user might still see some undefined resources in ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Get metrics from Instana to use in Argo Rollouts

As is known, Argo is currently the top opensource tool to make deployments. Argo Rollouts extends the capability of ArgoCD and provided features as blue/green deployment or canary deployments. As you might know Canary deployments work in the follo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Total Cost Default Calendar Settings

In order to view the last full month of cloud activity,  we would like to set the default month to last month not current month.
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Park ASG's or VMSS from EKS/AKS clusters

As now, it's only supported park ASG's and VMSS's that is not related to k8s clusters. The demand is to shutdown and turn on an entire k8s clusters for cost savings. They are doing today using scripts and it's welcome bring this feature inside Tur...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Official support for OCVS(Oracle Cloud VMware Solution)

Now, we are doing PoV for OCVS (Oracle Cloud VMware Solution) in Toyota Systems,The configuration is exactly the same as IBM Cloud Baremetal(VMware), VMware Cloud on AWS, and Turbonomic can visualize supply chain and do resource optimization, incl...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Future consideration

Need “Overwrite” capability in the Custom Calendar feature in Time Settings

Time Settings -> Custom Calendar feature only has “Append” option available to update dates.If we have to change the custom calendar dates(that we have already included in the file and checked in), we always have to rollback several days/months...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration