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UI & User Experience

Add a Status filter to the Related targets panel

When viewing related targets (from Targets page, select "three-dots" menu & pick View then select the Related targets (#) tab, it can be difficult to see targets with a specific state. In the attached screenshot, there are 202 total targets. N...
13 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Submitted

Enable Dynamic Application Maps for Pods, Namespaces, and Other Tagged Entities

Turbonomic currently allows Dynamic Application Maps to be generated based on VMs, but this capability is not available for other entity types such as Kubernetes Pods or Namespaces, even though these entities can also have labels/tags that can be ...
11 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Submitted

Add Action Execution Markers to Line Chart Widgets

Across Turbonomic, line chart widgets allow users to review historical trends for various resource metrics. However, it is currently not possible to visually identify when a specific Turbonomic action was executed on the timeline. To make it easie...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Future consideration

Add Distinction between Cross Cluster and Within Cluster Placement Actions

Currently there is no way to distinguish from the action center or from the action description pane whether a placement/move action is cross cluster or within cluster (assuming merge policies have been created and configured correctly). The custom...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Submitted

Tag creation and deletion in Turbonomic should take effect immediately, without waiting for the next broadcast cycle

When a user creates or deletes a tag within Turbonomic, the change does not take effect immediately. Instead, the tag is only applied to — or removed from — the entity after the next broadcast cycle completes, which can take 10 minutes or more. Ta...
29 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Submitted

Add Resultant Set of Policies to Action Details

it would be awesome if we could get a true RSOP representation of Policies on the Action Details page! Rather than showing me a list of policies that I have to go digging through to find the ONE policy per aspect that comes out on top after reconc...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Not under consideration

When visiting the Settings|Policies page, load ONLY user-defined policies by default

Currently, when a user visits the Settings|Policies page, ALL policies are loaded, which results in a long delay before being able to interact with the datagrid. To optimize the load time, I suggest loading ONLY the user-defined policies (and mayb...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Submitted

Widget for On-Prem ESX Clusters - Show N-1 and N-2 capacity thresholds in addition to headroom that already exists.

There are two ways to judge Host Cluster capacity growth, one is headroom, while the other is capacity threshold for N-1 or N-2 where N=number of hosts in the cluster. Would like to be able to project the peak demand and average demand as well. Fu...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Under review

Change vm uptime over more than a week

When someone is working with Turbonomic, inside action > Buy > Reserved instance we are only able to see the widget "VM UPTIME OVER A TYPICAL WEEK". That seems like all the buy reservations actions were based on a week study. We would like t...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Future consideration

Turbonomics Enhancement: Performance Optimisation Filtering for Volume Sizing

Lets teams quickly identify and prioritise volume‑related optimisation actions that directly improve performance, reducing manual analysis while ensuring storage right‑sizing decisions align with workload performance requirements—not just cost.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Needs more information