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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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All pages that have a graph and filtering radio buttons should also filter the included data table below the graph

In an enterprise environment, focusing on the critical issues is the primary use case driver of using an APM. As such, being able to quickly, and easily sort and order issues is critical. On the various event graphs there is a radio button to hide...
3 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

event that is triggered in case the oracledb sensor user is locked

If user is locked, no oracleDB metrics are available.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Message bus probe support for NFMP/NSP release 24.X

soon we will upgrade NFMP/NSP to version 24.X. can you validate the probe message bus will support all new releases NFMP/NSP 24.X
3 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Under review

Lower the size of the .ova hard drive

When importing the .ova the machine disk is 1,75Tib. Even if all this space is not used up thanks to thin provisioning, it is still a bad practice to over-provision that much storage. In our case the thinning of the space is done on the storage ba...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring of AWS MSK in Topics Level Metrics

Instana can currently monitor AWS MSK in the cluster and broker level of metrics only. To improve the AWS MSK monitoring quality, additional metrics in topics level with the following functions will definitely useful and helpful for the MSK opera...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solutio...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Extend time window to more than 120 min

Hello, Currently, when creating an event with built-in host metrics, the time window is limited to 120 min We received the following request, which is not currently possible with this limitation : - trigger an alert when a filesystem is > 70% f...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

increase scope and usage visibility of Azure VM Reserved Instances

Currently Turbo recommends VI purchases at an Account/Subscription level. (it can also narrow in on Billing Families and Regions). Azure permits RIs to be limited to Enterprise, Management Group (that’s a collection of Subscriptions), Subscription...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Stop count licenses for unsupported workloads

We have some workloads in Turbonomic that is not supported, like AWS Spot Instances and GCP Custom VMs. We still read and bring those workloads, but count them as a license consumption. We should not count them until fully GA of the feature and pr...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Not under consideration

Related Events: Do not suggest new groups covered by a deployed pattern

When new groups are discovered that match an existing pattern, they are not assigned to the existing pattern. This forces the users to move the pattern to new and then to deploy it again, so that new groups are assigned to the exsting pattern. The...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration