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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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Workload Planning Integration with Commitment Recommendations

It would be great if you could keep track of workload planning in Cloudability. For instance if we want to make a commitment on aggregate level we need to validate that the underlying resources will remain running, this requires input from the bus...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Planned for future release

Turbonomic SSO users authorized by groups assigned at Turbonomic combined with SSO group

Actions can only be allowed to be executed by the team members resonsible for certain cloud accounts instead of all accounts in GCP, AWS and Azure. The OKTA SSO group is created at enterprise level for read only, or read/write, but not at cloud ac...
25 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 1 Planned for future release

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

Create a new Presets button in the Time range Presets options for 'Last month' (or 'Last 28 days', something like this)

Simce Instana can show metrics up to 1 month why isn't there this kinda button in the presets. This can help with showing the 'Monthly overview' of the metrics f.e. in the Custom Dashboard section. Place where I imagine this idea to be developed a...
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Planned for future release

To show Savings under Azure Savings Compute plan in commitment portfolio

Customer would like to see the Savings they are making on their account under Commitment Portfolio. As of now, they do see details related to Utilization, Hourly commit and Remaining cost, however having the option to see the savings happening wou...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 2 Planned for future release

Delete actions, such as unnecessary snapshots and virtual NICs

I would like you to present actions to reduce waste other than VMs, Volumes, and DBs. I want to centrally manage wasted resources with Turbonomic.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Planned for future release

Plot data using variable as reference on Analytics

To make the charts (all or individual) plot data based on a variable (like POD for instance). This way, when a dashboard is created for a specific monitoring objective it would be easy to change the data by changing the variable the data is refere...
5 months ago in Instana 1 Planned for future release

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.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Planned for future release

Provide Turbonomic Database Integration for Db2 on LUW

Turbonomics today has the capability to observe database performance and provide tuning recommendations for SQL Server, MySQL and Oracle. This functionality should be extended to include Db2 for LUW.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Planned for future release

Need NGINX tracer libs for ARM

Dear colleagues, our customer has a lot of NGINX 1.18.x servers with PHP-FPM combined on ARM architecture. We successfully instrumented PHP-FPM but those calls are torn out of transactions because of NGINX and we didn't find Instana tracer libs fo...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Planned for future release