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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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Kafka Cluster Consumer Group Metrics at the Partition Level

I would like to monitor Kafka consumer group metrics such as current offset, log end offset, lag, throughput, etc., at the partition level. This would be similar to the metrics provided by the kafka-consumer-groups.sh CLI tool: ▶ bin/kafka-consume...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Datalink: Ability to hover over a connector for pop-up screen with details about connector

It would be very helpful if I could hover over a Datalink connector and see a pop-up box with general information about how the connector is built. For example, what time period the connector is pulling from and pushing to, what project the connec...
10 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Add the ability for the optional use of Key Based Authentication

We have a business use case around key based authentication. We have a group that would like to provide data for Power VM probe but are having issues with AD base authentication as they use key based for the rest of there processes. We would like ...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Planned for future release

Integration to load testing tools like Radview WebLOAD

We see some companies use load testing tools that integrate with our competitors such as Dynatrace. An example is WebLOAD from Radview. Can we provide an integration to load testing tools? Its a common problem when we install instana at a POC that...
10 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Maintenance windows display a message/note for end users

Hi team, Customer asked: When placing a downtime on an entity(application, website, port) within Instana, is it possible to display a message/note in the latter? Example: For instance, we place a downtime between 13:00 – 18:00 an application named...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 Future consideration

Allow for the creation of Turbonomic groups based on VMware Virtual Machine Hardware Versions

As a user with a large VMware environment who is automating action execution through ServiceNow I would like the ability to create groups based on VM Hardware version. Turbonomic is currently recommending to increase the number of vCPU's outside t...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration

vSphere sensor should be able to monitor multiple vCenter environments

Most customers have multiple vCenter environments. With the current design, customers must dedicate multiple VMs in order to monitor multiple vCenter environments. This is a waste of resources and means that the customer must dedicate multiple ser...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future 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

Need to collect traces from Kotlin applications (ktor)

Dear colleagues, a customer uses a lot of applications on Kotlin with ktor. They would like to use native way to collect calls from the application. OpenTelemetry is an option, but it requires additional efforts for configuration and maintenance. ...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 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