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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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VDI - GPU support/improvement

Improve on-prem placement and sizing analysis with additional GPU constraints: - Adding GPU related metrics - Placement actions to take GPU utilization & constraints into consideration - Scaling actions to update GPU profile (GPU size)

Support Amlen for Metrics and Traces

Currently, the MQTT Broker Amlen is not recognized as a technology by Instana. It would be great to have a sensor (as well as dashboard, built-in metrics, ...) for Amlen. Amlen provides most important metrics via REST API. In addition, Instana doe...
7 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Future consideration

Ability to add more than 10 Application Perspective's to events/alerts/etc

Would like the ability to add more than 10 Application Perspective's to event/alerts. This would allow us to add more Application Perspective's to one alert instead of creating multiple of the same alert to cover the Application Perspective's that...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Allow staggering of high impact changes

Problem: App teams: "we cannot have these X number of vms down at the same time" Infra engineers: "we cannot support manual policy creation for each execution schedule for each set of X VMs to reboot in the same CHG window" Description: We have ma...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

While in group edit mode, default search bar to return results within the group

When you navigate to Settings > Groups > searchbar > (search query), you get returned results from the total inventory of that entity type. Often times you need to edit the pre-existing group from a sparse collection of VMs, so it would b...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Future consideration

Add "path" value in helm chart with the Rabbitmq plugin defined

Hi, Please add the possibilty to add the "path" value in static-agent helm chart with using the rabbitmq plugin. All our rabbitmq containers are deployed with the "path : /rabbit". This path is not recognized by Instana because it's limited to use...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Configuration at menu of the TEP console that allow to change the font size of the menu

Hi There could be an option in the configuration menu of the TEP(Tivoli Enterprise Portal) to increase the font size of the menus of the TEP. Thanks.
4 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Future consideration

Application component actions don't have enough information

If you check the application component pending actions (heap resize) and extract the list to a spreadsheet or print the screen, there's nothing to separate for each area. There's no column for Account or Container cluster as example. In this case,...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Bring your own database

Resiliency is top of mind when maintaining a critical system such as Cloud pak for AIOps. Many enterprises have existing databases available to be used with existing approved backup/restore plans. If enterprises could bring their own database that...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

OTEL integration on Instana running Docker Container.

Want to enable the Open Telemetry (OTEL) acceptor (otlp-acceptor) so we can start testing OTEL as more standard way to send telemetry data to Instana. Instana backend is running on Docker Container
7 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Not under consideration