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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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Add support for GCP VM matching in Servicenow App

Support for matching AWs, Azure, VMWare and Hyper-V VMs exists today in the Turbonomic Servicenow app. Customer has a requirement to support matching of GCP VMs so change requests can relate to the relevant CIs in servicenow.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1

Flow reporting should have the options to be more device agnostic and have more dynamic selection capabilities, other than the selection of filters that are done within the widget definition.

The ideal option would be a pop-up selection window (selecting something where the variables are currently placed). Provides options such as: 1. Select a client/server role and then select from a list such as a network segment or host grouping tha...
7 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Add the Hours Idle field to VMs

The customer, HCSC, desires to create policies on cloud VMs based on how many hours they have been idle. Currently, IBM Turbonomic only supports the Hours Idle parameter for PaaS Synapse databases.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Dynamic navigation option from a table - links to specific reports depending on table row contents

Looking for a way of providing user dynamic and tailorable navigation to specific use case reports from a single source.  In this case to get to use cases for specific Service Names in the service taxonomy - potentially a report per Service N...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Future consideration

Display multiple owners for 1 application

For 1-to-many relationships, I’m looking for a feature that allows the “many” values to display on a single row in reporting (separated by a character, e.g. semi-colon) instead of just displaying an ellipses indicating Various. In addition to maki...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

RHEL OVA Template Option

With the recent announcement of CentOS going EoL, the Turbonomic OVA Template is being delivered on Rocky Linux beginning with 8.12.02. Unlike CentOS, Rocky is not approved for US Federal and will require extensive testing. RHEL is already adopted...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

License expiration notification should be configurable

Currently, all users accessing Instana will get a notification that the license is about to expire 30 days prior to license end date. This notification should be configurable, allowing admins to enable and configure it. Configuration of who gets t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 1 Future consideration

Instana Mule ESB V4.x Support

It is critical for the Mule ESB sensor to support more current versions of the product. Specifically v 4.3.0, 4.4.0 and 4.5.0. The only current support for the sensor is version 3.X, Mule 3 is in "extended support" and Mule 4.1.x and 4.2.x are end...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Integrate certificate import / update ability in to UI

It would be useful to be able to upload new certificates for update purposes when they expire, vs having to go through a multi step process in the CLI
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Add "Carryover data" option for defining custom Data Freshness Rule

As an Admin of TBM Studio, I'd like to define which of my custom Data Freshness Rules will allow for data to carry forward into future periods by adding a [Carryover data] toggle option on the Define New Data Freshness Rule dialog. This will allow...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration