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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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expanded options for aggressiveness, rate of resize and observation period

Currently, Virtual machine aggressiveness, rate of resize, and observation period are set for all types of actions CPU, Memory, Up, and Down. There is no way to have these configured differently for each type of action. So at the moment, VM will s...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

HMC Sensor - Add the HMC "release version" version to the product metrics

NOC agents must generate platform reports with the version to determine if there are changes. Currently, they cannot view through Instana UI and must contact the administrator of each HMC to obtain the version.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Support of DB2 for LUW v.11.5.9

We need to install DB2 for LUW v.11.5.9, as per contractual obligations with our customer and because this version introduces some security fixes. TADDM version 7.3.0.11 is currently supporting DB2 v11.5.8; can you please evaluate to certify this ...

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

Combine Azure volume scaling with VM scaling based on VM tags

What is the desired customer use case?: The customer would like from a policy to trigger the actions and execute the n actions at the same time (automatically/programmatically using API calls based on VM tags to select all the action related to o...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration

ADD HISTORICAL TAB IN GLOBAL SDWAN HEALTH SUMMARY REPORT -> PPM ALERTS HISTORY

VERIZON is currently rolling out a new service called SD-WAN Threshold-PPM (Proactive Performance Monitoring). While working with the beta customers ST MICRO and FIDELITY TIER 0 we saw the requirement for a tab that shows us historical PPM data. I...
10 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Not under consideration

Support in-place resource resize without restart

Kubernetes at version 1.27 released a feature to change cpu and memory from containers without trigger a restart. Use this mechanism will boost Turbonomic usage on cloud native targets and minimize the requests for GitOps integrations.Source: http...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

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

User-friendly message for unauthorized users

Today, when user is not authorized (i.e.: not part of any External Group in Turbo), Turbo displays a 500 server error: 500 Server Error: "{"type":500,"exception":"com.vmturbo.auth.api.authorization.AuthorizationException: Unable to authorize the u...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Simplified UI for Agent configuration

Many times Client find it difficult to edit configuration.yaml for agent configuration as this is huge file, indentation sensitive and not so user friendly. A more intuitive UI for making changes to agent configuration is requested through this idea.
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration