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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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Allowing Scheduling of a Parking Schedule Pause

We have a need to plan/schedule Parking Schedule Pauses to allow developers/engineers to plan maintain windows into existing Parking Schedules. So currently we have parking schedules in place and our sysadmins can pause a parking schedule for a pe...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Add sorting options on DI widgets

For UI/UX matters, it would be very useful to be able to save widgets/views in either ascending or descending values, or by certain attributes, but the option is not available. Sorting and saving the report doesn't actually saves it organized as d...
9 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
10 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Replace VMware tools shutdown command with SevOne shutdown command for proper shutdown

All VMware customers, would mean one triggered from the vCenter interface will then properly shutdown the machine. /etc/vmware-tools/poweroff-vm-default/etc/vmware-tools/restart-vm-default
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Adding row count metrics to database query monitoring

By enabling database administrators to identify usage patterns and understand user interactions, it allows for optimization of inefficient queries that return a large number of records, leading to improved response times. This metric needs to be a...
4 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 1 Future consideration

Plugin to monitor the creation/modification of files in BLOB (azure)

There is a filewatcher program that monitors files on on-premises servers, allowing jobs to consume these files. But there is nothing similar to monitor files in the Azure cloud - BLOB
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Missing examples of REGEX expressions when creating a Dynamic filter on new UI

On old UI, Turbo displays a "?" symbol when you create an REGEX filter that shows 4 examples of REGEX expressions and how to use on Turbo. On the new UI, it does not show these tips. It would be good to bring these help tips back to the new UI.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

In every list-based widget, show the number of rows visible vs the total rows in its data-set.

It's currently not possible to know how much data is in each widget. The metadata is the only that show page counts but, in that case, not how many rows per page.
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Node logs(kubelet logs) by using Instana sensor or configurations

to get insights on the events and issues at Node level.
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Logging 4 Future consideration

Latency Alerts in http requests in Mobile Apps perpective

We believe that adding latency alerts in Instana's mobile app dashboard would significantly enhance our monitoring capabilities. Currently, while we can observe the latency of Android app calls, we are unable to create smart alerts based on this m...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration