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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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Time data needed at the call details panel

It is not easy to know the starting time and the latency for calls, when the timeline is not shown in the analyzer, i.e., for big traces. My proposal is to show, in the call details panel, at what time the call started and which was its latency. T...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Showing the Revision/Version of Azure Windows on Turbonomic Entity UI

Currently, in the Turbonomic Entity UI, "Windows" is shown under "OS and Software." However, in the Azure Console, "Operating system" is displayed as "Windows (Windows Server 2019 Datacenter)," showing details like the type of Windows OS and its R...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

Board view - use backslash instead of forwardslash in horizontal/vertical setup

Changing the forward slash to backslash in the lane for horizontal/vertical lanes in boards. This way they would look more like the Excel, where if you have a table and drawn lane for one cell, it is crossed down like backslash.
11 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 1 Not under consideration

Action Center Proof-UI: Better explaining reasons for Turbonomic's resource decisions, especially cluster scaling

If Turbonomic generates host provision actions the risk listed in the pending actions widget or in the action center is e.g. named "Clone <host name> on cloned ...". This is not the risk why Turbonomic has decided for a cluster scaling. The ...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future 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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Critical job should part of error handler layout

The batch operators need an indication in the error handler layout, which job is most critical, so troubleshooting can be started with that one. If two or more jobs are very close with latest start time, a critical path indicator is needed so oper...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Configuration option for Tracing of SQL query parameters (PostgresQL)

In certain cases, it would be helpful for us to see the query parameters of a query. We would like to have a configuration option to switch tracing on for specific services or even only database entities. E.g. we are having a concurrent access on ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 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 ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Not under consideration

Remove Android Character Limit

I would like to request that the android-agent in the CustomEvent file be updated to remove the 1024-character limit on logs. This is because the current limit is causing logs to be truncated from Android devices, whereas they are not from iOS dev...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Snmpv3 -add support for HMAC-SHA authentication protocol

When the probe is set to receive SNMP v3 notifications, it is necessary to develop functionality for the probe to support Hash-based message authentication code (HMAC) - Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA) authentication protocol. We had requests from a ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration