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PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...
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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Add cluster data to Turbo Plans

Currently the plans in Turbo show host level. I would benefit from seeing cluster level information in the plans.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration

Transaction traceability using APPC architecture

This new functionality allows us to obtain and view complete traces of transactions sent from the distributed environment to the mainframe. The benefit is for all those clients who have a mainframe and still use this architecture as a means of c...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Submitted

Enable Turbonomic to support Red Hat OpenStack and any OpenStack

I have a client who have Turbonomic subscription and use Red Hat OpenStack and Ubuntu OpenStack as standard virtual machine infrastructure. The latest version of Turbonomic do not support OpenStack. We need to request add Openstack support in prod...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 9 Not under consideration

Provide Customers the ability to apply a Lucene query or dynamic focus query to the Filter section of a custom dashboard widget

Customer would like the ability to apply a Lucene query or dynamic focus query to the Filter section of a custom dashboard widget. For example, one need for this would be for the Customer to set the country to "Oman" and also set the User ID to a ...
16 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Under review

Parking actions support for On-Prem VMs & DB resources

Enable Manual & AI driven Parking actions support for On-Prem VMs & DB resources
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 3 Planned for future release

Bulk Create IAM Roles and add as Targets when adding a Master Billing account

Turbonomic supports ingesting AWS data from already created IAM Role/Users for specific AWS Accounts. This is great for 1 or 2 AWS accounts, but for customers who have 100s of AWS accounts, this can be very tedious. I am aware AWS allows their use...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Future consideration

CP4AIOps Connections - warning when creating Connections with invalid names

When creating a Connection in CP4AIOps (to Instana), you can create this Connection using characters like "_" with no warning. However, the Connection fails later on because of these illegal characters. It would be better if a warning appears when...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

The ability to integrate or move files to the secure cloud content management - Box, inc.

Our company uses Box as one of the primary ways to share files. In an effort to help automate report distribution to some of these customers, it would be nice to be able to use IWS to move files to Box. Since we already connect to the necessary se...
10 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Would like to define Warning and Critical threshold ranges within a single Event or SmartAlert

If a customer wants to create both a Warning and Critical threshold for the same underlying metric, they create either 2 Smart Alerts or 2 Events. For example, create a Warning Event when CPU usage is between 80% and 90% utilization and Critical E...
10 days ago in Instana / Alert 1

Option to apply resize policies on groups of namespaces

When trying to "cleanup" the whole cluster it is pretty tedious to keep filtering by namespaces. So my workflow using Turbonomic is usually that I check the recommendations on the Turbo homepage to see where the needs for resizing are. I then crea...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted