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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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Cisco Intersight Managed Mode

Moving from Cisco UCS Manager to Intersight Managed Mode is resulting in a loss of feature functionality in data to enhance marketplace decisions. Please add support for Intersight Managed Mode to retain equivalent data as we add more and more IMM...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

vVol datastore support for storage moves

Allow storage move actions from VMFS datastore clusters to vVol datastores to provide a way to automate migration to vVols
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 3 Future consideration

Add the ability to click out of an "x-able" box by clicking in a greyed out part of the window

It'd be nice ux for you to be able to click in any of the grey areas and it'll close out the window you had open. the x still exists as another option to click out of a config window. if there are changes when a user clicks out of the window, then...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

automated & time-bound exclusion of certain VMs from downsizing due to CTO mandate

Customer story. The CTO mandates certain VMs are excluded for a certain time from the standard downsizing policies which run at each month end. Current process is a bore - manually pulling these machines into a RECOMMEND ONLY OVERRIDE group (leavi...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Filtering App Perspectives on Tags in child calls

We currently have a few use cases that mean we need to create an App Perspective that filters on a tag that is set on a child span of a parent span i.e. deeper within the code (we cannot pass it back up to the parent call). We create SLI metrics f...
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Limit what files are copied per pod by instana-instrumentation-init

The typical duration of instana-instrumentation-init is 2 seconds. This becomes an issue during node consolidation and when pods are moved to a new node. I’ve analysed the reason for this slow performance, and it is likely due to the init containe...
11 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6 Functionality already exists

Support new families at GCP target - C4 and N4

Customers and Magazine Luiza started to question when we are supporting actions considering the new GCP families: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/compute-and-infrastructure-enhancements-at-next24 N4 and C4, also AMD VMs.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Planned for future release

Exporting the list of agents including FQDN and related informaiton

1. How to export all agents, host FQDN, agent version and related informaiton using GUI? 2.Is there a API that I can use to export the Agent version, FQDN, agent-status into a file
6 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

SNMPv3 Engine ID changes

Incorporate the SNMPv3 engine id CHANGE natively within the product
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Optimize Load time for dependencies/Flow tab under application perspectives

We have observed that the dependency tab takes a large amount of time to load when we select the time window as 1 week. We do not expect this to happen as analysis of the flows is crucial to identify impact if a service goes down and historical in...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration