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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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Error alerting for mandatory field when populating any form

If a required field isn't filled out such as group/policy name or required field such as policy scope isn't selected. It doesn't direct the user towards the problem. Maybe a red highlight or prompt near the Submit button to point them as to what e...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Fix consistency of Action Essentials between entity types

Currently other entity types such as RDS and EBS show whether downtime is required or not but EC2 does not provide this warning. Currently the State says "Action can be accepted and executed immediately." which may be misleading to someone not pay...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

The plan function should include migration of SQL Managed Instances from on prem to the cloud.

These are very expensive entities - and the ability to estimate costs would be good. Also important, some customers use the exported plan as an input into a semi-automated migration process. So being able to include SQL machines in the planning fu...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Add search field on the cloud Top Accounts page.

Currently you can search by account in the target list, or in the Search/Accounts list (which doesn't show you summary data), but if you go to the Top Accounts page, there is no way to easily search for the item you are looking for. This is really...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Instana monitoring MQ can only filter on queues, not able to filter by a channel or topics and per client.

Instana monitoring MQ can only filter on queues, not able to filter by a channel or topics and per client.
9 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Planned for future release

Add WebSphere (WAS) information to Custom Service Rules

Hello, Can you please add WebSphere (WAS) information like Server Name, Node Name and Cell Name to the list of tags in Custom Service Rules ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-services#create-a-custom-ser...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Planned for future release

"Entity Information" widget should be sorted alphabetically

This widget has grown a lot over the years and for some objects now runs off the screen. As it does not seem to be sorted alphabetically, it can be difficult to navigate and does not provide a good user experience
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Planned for future release

Retention of JVM data after change in PID/ID

When an Application release, update/change, or outage occurs, all JVM data for the process ID running prior is lost in Instana. This has been confirmed as correct functionality within Instana through ticket "TS013919515" "It is expected behaviour ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 2 Planned for future release

Add support for multiple SaaS Clients connecting to SaaS instance

Today, one can only connect one SaaS Client to a Turbo SaaS instance. But there are examples where customers have multiple datacenters that do not have network connectivity between them. Because of this, they need a SaaS Client in each datacenter ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Planned for future release

Re : gNMI - Catalyst 9800 IOT Sensor and Wifi Metric collection

C https://richardatkin.com/post/2022/03/22/Streaming-environmental-air-quality-data-from-the-Cisco-Catalyst-9136-WiFi6e-Access-Point.html https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/9800/technical-reference/catalyst-9800-programmabil...
6 months ago in SevOne / Enterprise Wireless (WIFI) 0 Planned for future release