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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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In the Merge Cluster Plan the cluster name should be displayed in the actions, output, and exports.

When using the Merge Cluster Plan only the host name is present in the actions, output, and exports. It would be nice if the cluster name were present in the actions, output, and exports for easy readability and understanding of the data.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 1 Future consideration

Granular resizing automation policies for Cloud Volume and DBs similar to 'Scale for Performance/Savings' settings for Cloud VMs

As a user, I would like the flexibility to specify which actions to automate and which ones should be reviewed and/or taken manually. Similar to the Orchestration and Automation settings for VM, I would like to see a Scale All / Scale for Performa...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Future consideration

IBM PowerHMC Sensor - Enable Logical Partition "state" metric for custom event

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the LPAR status when it is not running.
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 0 Future consideration

sub-interface names should be made avaialble for ceges in flow report even if the sub-interfaces is not discovered in SevOne

As per current architecture for CCSDWAN, interfaces are discovered via API calls to vManage and flow is directly recived from devices. The flow interfaces then are mapped to the interfaces discovered via vManage alowing to chain the flow reports. ...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 4 Future consideration

Dependencies/Flow tab Optimization to view data for a week

We have observed that the dependency tab takes a large amount of time to load when we select the time window as 1 week. We do not expect this to happen as analysis of the flows is crucial to identify impact if a service goes down . Ability to show...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Future consideration

Report with the utilization graphs for a group of VMs

I’d like the ability to have Turbo generate a report with the usage graphs for a group of VMs. I must get App Owner signoff for server RightSizing, and this data is demanded frequently to justify Turbo’s recommendations. I’d like to be able to spe...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 7 Future consideration

Ability to investigate Active Sessions

Whenever Instana shows high Active Sessions for a particular war file, there is no way to investigate high Active Sessions. Please add more details about active sessions to find how and who created these sessions (some basic information for who c...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 0 Future consideration

This is not a new idea rather than reporting on a lost feature in TWS 9.5

There is no way to rename the Workload Broker Workstation in TWS 9.5It take the host name and add _DWB as post fix to the name. This is not good when we use backup master and long term switch to the backup master. In fact I manage to rename the DW...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

Add support for MongoDB with Kerberos Authentication

Instana agent does not support monitoring MongoDB configured with Kerberos Authentication
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Enable INSTANA auto-tracing for Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

Hi Team, I am creating this ticket as a follow-up of https://support.instana.com/hc/en-us/requests/23465. We at Arlo are using Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX), a fully managed, highly available caching service built for Amazon DynamoDB. With cur...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Future consideration