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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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Support for Redis Sensor on native IBM i Agent

Redis is data service that is one of the most popular NoSQL DBs.
12 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Support for PHP Sensor on native IBM i agent.

Any customer using PHP on IBM i would likely benefit from having support for this service.
12 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Support for Apache Sensor on native IBM i agent

Apache is a commonly used open source web server that is likely adopted by many IBM i customers. Having sensor support would allow Apache services to be seen in calls/dependency mapping.
12 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Improve Right Sizing ROI policy to filter out different types (e.g. ignore EBS gp2/sc1 recommendations)

Currently seeing lot's of recommendations to change EBS to GP2. AWS is strongly recommending moving GP2 to GP3 so it's bizarre to recommend the reverse. Want to alter the policy to ignore such options, or only show GP3.
12 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Request for Policy limit Increase and Consolidation Option

We are unable to create a new policy for rightsizing because we have reached the policy limit target (30 policies). we have multiple Line of Business (LOBs), and each LOB requires three policies-one for each service: Compute, Disk, and SQL. We kin...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Enable the view of Plan name from IBM CSV billing file

We are looking to get the data about the instance type / family / Category to create reports to track GPU usage in IBMC via Cloudability.As much as I looked the Plan name contain this data that will enable us to create that report. Because this vi...
23 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

New Plug-in: Kafka Job Type and Dashboard

Kafka has become an integral part of the financial services technology stack, enabling real-time event streaming across diverse lines of business. From fraud detection to regulatory compliance, its applications are vast and impactful. However, the...
23 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Add Object Summary widget to DI that automatically shows all indicator values on separate charts for the selected object.

Makes it easier to see all related indicators and their values at a glance vs. having to manually select each one. Similar to SevOne SURF object summary functionality.
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Needs more information

Request for Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud) Support in Turbonomic

Dear Turbonomic Production Team, Turbonomic currently lacks support for Alibaba Cloud, and I strongly believe that incorporating this support would be invaluable, especially given the significant presence of Alibaba Cloud in the Chinese market. No...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Not under consideration

Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
3 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Under review