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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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we want to see the application pools as individuals applications

we dont want to see application pools, because we cannot make dashboards of the ones that are inside the application pool.
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration

Grafana Data Source Alert Management

Using the Grafana data source for Instana does not allow creating alerts. It would be really useful to be able to manage alerts from Grafana where we already have dashboards with built-in metrics and custom metrics (ie: StatsD).
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Restrict addition of Percentage columns in Apptio -Non-summable

We have an option to restrict row totals in Apptio for any field (By selecting Summable/Non-summable option in the formula ). But the same option is not working fine when the column total is happening. Percentage values cannot be summable, the cal...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Enable Database job type to authenticate to the Microsoft SQL Server DB via Domain service accounts

During work to meet an internal business security requirement the expectation to use Domain accounts was defined as a solution to mitigate the use of local service accounts within the Microsoft SQL Server DB security table. However, upon further i...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Import Data Mapping from Turbonomic ontology

Turbonomic uses the data it has access to in order to create a mapping of which resources belong to which applications. Customer would like to be able to reuse this classification to map the cost data to match the Turbonomic categorization.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

VVOL volumes are not providing data to Turbonomic. So the data cannot be stitched.

A customer with a vcenter target utilizing Pure Storage is missing storage capacity and usage information (storage access IOPS / latency) in Turbo for some VMs, but are getting those metrics for other VMs discovered from the same vCenter target , ...

Additional Reserved Instance Recommendations - Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Only the compute costs are included with a reservation. A reservation doesn't cover software, networking, or storage charges associated with the PostgreSQL Database servers. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 0 Future consideration

Filter conditions should be private / shared by certain permissions

Instana users can "save, edit, and delete filters". https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=instana-filtering-dynamic-focus And it is 'shared' with all users automatically. But if a customer plans to accept Instana corporat...
6 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Allow for file encryption keys to be provided by the customer and utilized in encryption of data at rest in the platform

Allow for customers of Turbonomic / ParkMyCloud to encrypt their data at rest in the platform by exposing an Azure KeyVault that Turbo can reach out to and connect/pull down rotating encryption keys. This allows the customer to maintain control of...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 2 Not under consideration

Schedule DataLink connectors by working days

Many of our customers manage the upload of the files in based on the working days, for example actuals are available on the 6th working day of the month Datalink allows this to be done only based on days and not working days, which can be affected...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration