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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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Custom Event multiple conditions

This is a follow up to Aha Idea 729 which requested multiple conditions on a custom event. This is now available. However, it does not address our Use Cases, primarily as ita) It only allows multiple conditions on a single Entity typeb) only allow...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Integrate the capability to connect to a vault to get target credentials

In many different organizations, the security teams are more and more pushing the use of vaults to store system accounts or system to system credentials. Turbonomic is connecting to many different infrastructure management systems like the Cloud A...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

Dynatrace discovered standalone server hardware (bare metal server) metrics are being collected yet Turbonomic doesn't present that hardware in the UI either as a VM or Host.

As a unified interface for all infrastructures for On-Prem, Cloud, Storage, Network, and Applications, the only missing part of the unified view is the standalone hardware server. This could be a server box, blade, on bare metal with an operating ...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

At the time of first reviewing the case to request for the backend server logs to be preserved by the SaaS team for retrospective review.

During the initial review of a case, the SaaS team should be able to save the back-end server logs and conduct a retrospective review.Of course, the customer needs to report the issue as soon as possible in order to have the best chance of preserv...
5 months ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Include Resource Group details in Executed Actions widget

Please can I make a product improvement request. In the data export for the executed actions widget please can Cloud Resource Group and Cloud Account be included as fields in the executed actions data extract. These fields are present in pending a...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Under review

Please support more than port 2514 for logging to external logserver, for example 514.

Hello, We would like to connect our Turbonomic instances to our central log server (Greylog). But this is only possible via the following ports: 514, 6514, 601, 6601 However, Turbonomic does not allow any port configuration and always sends syslog...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0

Improve tracing visibility

Hello, I tried to install UserTracing exit on MQ 9.4.0.0 on linux. Here after is my data chain : MQ 9.4.0.0 -> UserTracing exit -> otelcol -> jaeger backend ->grafana It works, and gives tracing times, but unfortunately, it's not as ad...
3 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Support rightsizing and mangling AWS Lambda functions

As clients are maturing in the cloud, we are noticing more services and application moving towards a server-less architecture. Identifying which configuration on Lambda is suitable based on the demand is challenging to customers, and each configur...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 3 Future consideration

Add possibility to group alerts by geographic location

We have many smart alerts per country both in the application and website perspective, it would be nice to be able to set a geographic location (editable or not). In our case it would be very useful to have a distribution by continents so as not t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Add an UNDO button for actions

Many times, users approve rightsizing of application VMs based on Turbo recommendations and realize as soon as it is completed that the change causes problems. The immediately request we "put it back" and we need to research the original configura...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 6 Not under consideration