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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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Avoid abnormal termination false positives during Helm deployment

Use-case: During HELM deployment the old pods are expected to be stopped with a SIGKILL. So the event Instana is raising is technically correct, but absolutely expected. This FR is about adding more logica to such K8s events and Instana events avo...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

"Non-Disruptive" and "Reversible" Filter

This is an idea for the filter when creating a group. The customer would like to create a group with the attributes of being Non-Disruptive and Reversible (or at least one of them) for the volume. However, it seems that currently, we cannot use th...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

ITM Summarization and Pruning Agent should verify TEP Server connection at start-up

After start-up the S&P Agent does not verify the TEP Server connection until the first schedule execution time. Until that point the "TEPS Connectivity" attribute is indicated as "No" and generate a situation event until the first execution ha...
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

Improve stitching where single service is backed by multiple different workloads

Turbo should be able to handle stitching where single service is backed by multiple different workloads. Also define which workload in an SLO policy will scale. PM update: Will convert this to an improvement on how Turbonomic stitches Services to ...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Not under consideration

Proxy support for SaaS client

Hi team, There is a big limitation on customers using Turbo on SaaS and wanting to connect on-premise. The SaaS client ova does not support proxy, which a common piece in all customers. In the real life means if you have Turbo SaaS, then you canno...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Not under consideration

Instrument api calls with identity

We have an api that is exposed to third parties, that api is accessed using a token. We cannot trace the calls b/c there is no way to instrument or start a trace on the server with the identity of the user associated with the token. We would like ...
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 6 Not under consideration

All Search option

Hi, is there a possiblity to get an "all search" option in turbonomic or the ability to change the default "search vm" to a different kind like default "search groups". As we in the Atruvia using mostly groups it would be pretty good to start the ...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Hide imported groups

Hi, as we are having so many groups in turbonomic it would be very helpful to hide all imported groups from our targets like vcenter or vmm. We dont need these groups and it only disturbes us while we are searching for something. It would be very ...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

API - missing link between service and process

Hi, I'm trying to retrieve the whole application stack (AP > service > process > host) through the Instana API. Currently I'm using the following API requests: {{baseURL}}/api/application-monitoring/applications?nameFilter=xxx {{baseURL}}...
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Not under consideration

Convert "Smart Alert" into "Global Smart Alert" and vice versa

Sometimes Instana users own more than one application perspective. Suppose they already defined a smart alert on one ap and later want to apply the same configuration also on other ap(s). Then it would be helpful to have a button in the UI, that a...
12 months ago in Instana / Alert / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration