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Campanion operator support at pod level

Customer would like to have companion operator to manage workloaad at pod level. they use git and crossplane to deploy and manage workload.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Submitted

Update the Workstation definition during manual switchmgr

Whenever you run a switchmgr to move the MDM from one server to the other, it should automatically update the workstation definitions. This is already done during an automatic failover, just not a manual one.
11 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Database Server Max Observation Period set to 90 days

We have Max Observation Period of 90 days for Virtual Machine and Volume. We are expecting the same max 90 days observation period for Database Server too. Application Team wants to see the utilization through 90 days to decide on the scaling reco...
11 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Data retention configuration by size of disk-space

On Instana Standar Edition (On-Prem) the current data retention configuration is only by time (e.g. 7 days) - It would be much helpful if we can also configure by size of disk-space (e.g. 5Tb) as current feature is not very useful for customers wh...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Allow Probes to add dynamic custom fields to alerts in Watson AIOps that are visible in the details section.

n Netcool OMNIbus, it was possible to manually create new fields in the database (alerts.status) via insert operations, and then populate them through Probe rules. This allowed operators to enrich events with custom business-relevant data directly...
2 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Use the value "Actuals" for the Source Plan field for actuals rows appended into forecast plans instead of the forecast plan name

Currently, when a forecast plan is created, actuals rows use the plan name in the Source Plan field (e.g., “FY2025 November Forecast”). To improve clarity between actuals and forecast data, we request that actuals rows appended during plan creatio...
19 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Planned for future release

Preserve Deep Link Destination After SSO Login

Currently, when a user opens a direct link to a specific entity, action, group, or any other resource in Turbonomic, the system redirects them to the SSO login page if they are not already authenticated. However, after successful login, the user i...

Apptio Report Studio:::Allow searching in hierarchical slicers

Hierarchical slicers are very useful in reports to layer hierarchical data by bringing in a carefully created perspective. However, their values cannot be searched the way a normal slicer would work. This idea is to make hierarchical slicers searc...
12 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Improve enumeration and display of error message in transform pipeline

The error message in transform pipeline will often only surface a single error, even if there are multiple errors. This leads to an inefficient experience of clearing one error, only to be notified of another, and then another. Instead, the user i...
12 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted