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Feature Request for "Migrate to Cloud" in the PLAN Functionality

In the "Select Where to Migrate" section of "Migrate to Cloud," currently only existing clouds (those linked to the account) are displayed. Users cannot execute planning if they do not have an account. For example, if a user with only an Azure acc...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 1 Future consideration

Allow Instana to perform deep monitoring of OpenShift

We recently had an issue in our OpenShift cluster where we were unable to authenticate against our AD server because the certificates on the AD server had expired. I would have expected that Instana was able to monitor OpenShift and alert us to th...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Search Enahancement

When going to the "Search" in Turbonomic it always defaults to the "Virtual Machine" category way down the list which is confusing for customers. The suggestion is one of the following: - When opening search it should be defaulting at the top i.e....
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0

Group search - filter required

When creating groups, there is a list of all user groups that have been created.However when using the Search in Turbonomic all the discovered groups are visible in the UI with no easy way of filtering/searching for groups of interest other than t...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Add Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to the Resource Inventory

Currently, the only supported services in Resource Inventory are EC2, EBS, S3, Lambda, RDS and Redshift. But there are customers who do not use EC2 Compute instances and instead use containerized services like Kubernetes. It is important for them ...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Under review

Enable Apptio BI Report Subscriptions for Non-Cloudability Users

Currently, only Cloudability users can subscribe to Apptio BI reports. However, there are scenarios where customers want to include members of their management or leadership teams, who are not Cloudability users and do not wish to become users, in...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Not under consideration

Capability to hide certain object types from “Add” and “+” button 

Prevent users from creating unnecessary objects that clutter up the environment
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 1 Needs more information

Custom events - Possibility to set up only during certain period of time

Hi, Nowadays there is not any possibility to create a custom event that could trigger an event only during time frame wished. Use case is clear. Imagine an integration that is only receiving calls during business hours. We could want to monitor if...
over 4 years ago in Instana / Alert 5 Not under consideration

Lightweight / Modular Instana Agent Package for Large-Scale Enterprise On-Premise Deployments

In large-scale enterprise environments (e.g., 900+ on-premise hosts with strict internal network bandwidth limits), deploying and updating the Instana Host Agent is a major pain point. The current Agent installation package is exceedingly large be...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

API needed for automation of user groups, profiles, alert filter, and restriction filter creation

We need the ability to automate creation of user groups, profiles, alert filters and restriction filters via an API. Currently there does not appear to be an API available for this. The existence of the migration tool suggests that the needed func...
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review