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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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Please add support for Performance Plus for Azure Disk Storage

Using Performance Plus for Azure Disk Storage (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/disks-enable-performance?tabs=azure-cli ) an Azure customer can opt-in for this IOPS and thoughput for Azure disks. Please add support for ...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Editable Tables changes: Allow access to Consolidated Edit Log in TBM Studio

For Costing Essentials, Client requested to understand all changes happening in Workbench, but the only way to do this today is to export from every table, every day the changes and import the output in a new table in TBM Studio, which is a very h...
9 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Set the remote monitoring interval for Oracle database

In TS015830047, IBM Support Services responded that the expected behavior for remote monitoring of Oracle DB is that if the connection fails, it will only be retried after a 10 minute interval. It's a long time to be unable to monitor for 10 minut...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Option to apply resize policies on groups of namespaces

When trying to "cleanup" the whole cluster it is pretty tedious to keep filtering by namespaces. So my workflow using Turbonomic is usually that I check the recommendations on the Turbo homepage to see where the needs for resizing are. I then crea...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 5 Future consideration

Monthly Time Period Picker

I had originally reached out via Apptio Support, and it was suggested I bring this as an enhancement request. (Case # 00349544) When we have monthly time period as picker(January, February etc), When we select the random month from the picker, t...
9 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

change time frame resolution in Chart: Time Series.

We want to change the resolution as shown in the chart time series graphs, Instana establishes by default a granularity according to the time frame that one selects., we want to change the resolution in a personalized way, it would allow us to ana...
9 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

Add group filter "Cloud Tier" for Database Servers entities

If you want to create a group with all databases with version db.r6g as example, you can't use the cloud tier as a filter. Customers can't limit the resize to his own family, since Turbonomic is not RI RDS aware.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Name individual spring boot applications when sanitizing sensitive values

We have a customer with a lot of springboot applications and due to their sanitizing policy, we cannot see the application names in Instana and they show up as "*****", there are 3 solutions for this according to springboots own documentation: htt...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Auto Failover for TNC-A components

Currently there is no failover mechanism in any of the components in TNC-A. If any issue happens within any component like impact/probes/objectserver it needs to be handled manually. We are monitoring all these components health manually and takin...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Instana agent and ui-backend proxy settings with no proxy var or proxy config per backend

We are trying to send our instana agent to a 2nd backend on your saas for testing a feature. But our kubernetes agents are getting timeouts to your endpoint. I assume it has to do with our network setup and that our proxy has to be used to reach y...
10 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Future consideration