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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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Auto-create groups for VM's with and without memory metrics for AWS and GCP VM's

Auto-create groups for VM's with and without memory metrics for AWS and GCP VM's as this is currently done for Azure VM's as per attached screen shot. This will make it easier to track and report on what VM's have memory metrics enabled for all cl...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

Need performance Disk and SAN data (NPIV and physical ports) from AIX Client and AIX VIOS like we have today with NMON , NJMON utility or e.g. with iostat command from AIX (See uploaded example textfile)

We need to collect permanently disk and san infrastructure because most of the problems came from this environment in the past beside typical cpu,memory, filesystem etc. This integration was included in Tivoli ITCAM or in free tools from IBM like ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Unique names for views

Hi Team, when creating views on the navigation pane, can a customer prevent duplicate naming, especially for common use views (like Team Backlog, for example). Are there any mashups or solutions that would help with that?
10 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Variance Reporting in IT Planning

Objective: Reverse the variance signs in IT Planning/Expenses to show a positive variance as a positive number and a negative variance as a negative number. Current State: Currently in Apptio, the variances in IT Planning/Expenses show that a neg...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

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

Exclude Local FileSystem from monitoring

Currently, there is only option to INCLUDE REMOTE filesystems to be monitored within Instana agent configuration file. Customer is looking for the option to EXCLUDE LOCAL filesystem from monitoring. They do have some filesystems which are nearly f...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Functionality already exists

Excel import with dynamic worksheet names

Currently, there are two options for designating which worksheet should be loaded in the import step: No name specified and first worksheet is loaded A fixed worksheet name is specified and cannot be changed It would be amazing to add an option ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Search in Event viewer under 'IBM_Cloud_Analytics' doesn't search for the element if within correlated group

When we search in the Event viewer 'IBM_Cloud_Analytics' view, the search doesn't work. If the element is part of a correlated group, search doesn't work to identify the group or element. We have to then default the view and search on the flat vie...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Integrate the capability to connect to a vault to get target credentials

In many different organizations, the security teams are more and more pushing the use of vaults to store system accounts or system to system credentials. Turbonomic is connecting to many different infrastructure management systems like the Cloud A...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration