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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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Rightsizing Preferences - More exclusion instance type values

Currently we are able to add only 10 instance type values which is blocking us to exclude more instance type as per our organization standard. IBM cloudability team should allow client to provide more values and there should be dropdown available ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Add list of Policies to the bottom of the Details Action page on volume actions. Currently it is inconsistent with other entity types like EC2, RDS, etc.

When viewing a virtual machine or database server the Action details page has a list of policies at the bottom of the proposed changes, so you can quickly see what's applied to it that is driving that recommendation. It would be handy to also see ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

SDP support for Azure Managed Identity authentication with Kafka-compatible interface to Azure Event Hub

For SDP (Kafka), SevOne does not currently support Azure Managed Identity directly for Azure Event Hub. Can we add this feature?
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Data Bus (DB) 0 Future consideration

Adding Redhat KVM as a supported hypervisor.

Please add Redhat KVM as a supported hypervisor for on-premises environments. https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/virtualization/what-is-KVM
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Self-Monitoring Instana with Instana - Document Instana custom metrics

(Self-Hosted) Instana instances can be fully monitored using Instana. If you know which metrics (custom metrics in Instana) to look out for when workload or resources change. Instana should provide up-to-date documentation of internal custom metri...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Future consideration

Include date in projected end timestamp for schedules

If you set an end time of 1464 hours later, for example, you'll get a message like: Occurs once effective Tue, Aug 20, 2024 starting at 14:00 and finishing 61 days later at 14:00. This idea is for including a timestamp at the end time: Occurs once...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

instana monitor confluent kafka group lag

instana can not monitor confluent kafka group lag, confluent kafka protocol is sasl_ssl, not defalut plain protocol
5 months ago in Instana / Java 2 Future consideration

Story(Incident) in UI should be able to suggest recommendation based on selected Alerts by Generative AI(WatsonX)

The Key use case of IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps, “AI Manager” is Proactive Incident Detect & Diagnose by leveraging AI(ML) technology. Story(Incident) in UI at current version, 3.7.x of AI Manager suggests top 3 Alerts which are related to ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Alert for device discovery

When the devices were not being discovered properly the user is unable to find out until unless they are facing any issue. So, I'm thinking to have an alert for the device discovery, which helps to notify the user when the discovery was stuck. Thi...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Automated report from instana dashboards

We are trying to send an automated report from instana custom dashboard via email, but we don't see any options available in UI also don't see anything in the instana documentation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability Please help wit...
10 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Future consideration