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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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Manage configuration.yaml with Secret

We would like to monitor EDB Postgres for Kubernetes on Instana. As a prerequisite, Instana runs only agents in SaaS deployment format in an OpenShift environment. EDB Postgres for Kubernetes runs in the same OpenShift environment. Referring ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Functionality already exists

CPU Socket adjustment.

client: " I’d like to have Turbo always set the number of CPU sockets to 2, and to adjust the cores per socket # to modify the # of vCPUs when RightSizing. Currently this is accomplished with a custom script. I would like this configurable on at t...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to RightSize a VM’s vMem and vCPU at the same time.

The clients would benefit by being able to take multiple actions at once. Increased efficiency
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Functionality already exists

Set alert to monitor Kubernetes Nodes CPU and Memory Usage

Please add option to set the event/alert to monitor Kubernetes Nodes CPU and Memory Usage in Instana events section.
11 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6 Functionality already exists

Monitor and or lock down actions on variable tables

A user set one of their variable tables as the default table and we would like to be able to be alerted on this action at the minimum or at a maximum lock down this action so that only certain users can perform this action.
11 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Support Spectrum v10.5(21.2.1) in nco-p-ca-spectrum-corba probe [Case number: TS006479579]

More details available at [Case number: TS006479579] Hi, We Citigroup are using Broadcom spectrum product to monitor Network and want to forward the alerts event to Netcool Corba probe if any issue. Currently IBM Netcool nco-p-ca-spectrum-corba pr...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Functionality already exists

Set workflows to run on all workers in a worker pool

It would be useful to be able to set a workflow to be executed on every worker in a worker pool, rather than round robin. This is useful for testing type scenarios when I'd want to run the same test from multiple endpoints and collate the results....
12 months ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Turbo should not recommend Disk Size changes for Azure HyperScale DBs - they autoscale.

bad actions reduce faith in the product and waste time. This is distracting the customer for really good actions - like HyperScale scaling.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Functionality already exists

Improving Kubernetes Alerting

Status quo Built-in event ("Kubernetes Pod condition status") for when a Kubernetes pod reports 'Not Ready' state for more than one minute. Desired Ability to get alerted when pods created within last 30 minutes reports 'Not Ready' state for more ...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Kubernetes 1 Functionality already exists

Map Groups with SAML (Okta)

We have SSO setup for the Instana Backend using SAML with Okta. We would like to be able to map groups provided by the Idp to Instana roles/groups. The ability to map our internal LDAP groups to Instana groups would give us the ability to apply ac...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance 2 Functionality already exists