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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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Park ASG's or VMSS from EKS/AKS clusters

As now, it's only supported park ASG's and VMSS's that is not related to k8s clusters. The demand is to shutdown and turn on an entire k8s clusters for cost savings. They are doing today using scripts and it's welcome bring this feature inside Tur...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Ability to "Freeze" rows for Actual Labor Headcount

Currently, under Labor Tab,  any Existing/ Actual Labor Headcount that is published to a Forecast Plan is editable by the Cost Center Owners. In some cases, these rows were inadvertently being updated or deleted by CC Owners that increases th...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

monitoring multiple vCenters from a single Agent

Per documentation (www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/... you can deploy the agent on the vCenter itself or any agent of choice (linux/windows) on a remote system - the vCenter sensor is able to perform remote monitoring if installation on the vCenter is not...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Host Agent to run without sudoers permission

We've gotten this request from a few customers that don't want processes running as root. The request is to provide support for the Host Agent to run as non-root user. The customer understands that they would be giving up some of the discovery cap...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

In Rightsizing ROI, add capability to add business dimensions to rightsizing filters.

Currently in Optimization > Rightsizing ROI, the existing [+ Add Filter] menu lists a very limited set of dimensions for use.Filters do not match those available in Optimization > Rightsizing
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Cloudability support Idle Load Balancer in Rightsizing service or in reporting

Today, there isn't a way to get this info of Idle load balancers in Cloudabiltiy the only way to do so, is by tagging resources in AWS to reflect in Cloudability.THis is not good for our organization' as we manage several AWS payer accounts with d...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Support Cron Expressions for automations scheduling

TargetProcess allows scheduling automations to run every x days, y hours, or z minutes. It would be a great improvement if we could use Cron Expressions to schedule automations. For example, if I want to run a specific automation every monday and ...
8 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Under review

Ability to globally change currency for all users in Apptio BI

All users who click on Apptio BI reports that we created see them in "$" not "£". We have added the "Manage Currency Exchange" stating that the display should be GBP and to use our exchange rate. However according to support this is not yet possib...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Oracle ExaData Integration

Customer is using Oracle ExaData - x9m-2 & x8m-2 versions and interested to integrate with Turbonomic.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Clickhouse Retention based on age of data

We would like to move the data on the clickhouse based on the age of the data. For a monitoring tool the most recent data is the most important. But older data gets not looked at as often. So in an effort to reduce cost for storage we want to be a...
8 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Future consideration