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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 Public Cloud(AWS, Azure, GCP) via Private Link connection.

Turbonomic connects to publicly exposed API endpoints of each cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) to obtain information on each cloud and optimize IT resources.Major Japanese users who operate mission-critical systems in the cloud often connect secur...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration

Manage Move Automation on a non-VM level

Turbo WPA is a competitor to VMware's DRS capabilities. Considering most customers ofTurbo are virtualized with VMware, we/they need a way to handle WPA on a cluster level, instead of having to create a group of VMs based on cluster resourcing as ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Anomaly detection on issues

When an unusual amount of issues have occured (for an entity) it would be good to assure this boils up somehow. I.e. if CPU usage or memory exhaustion happens more frequently than usual (on a host) the user should be able to be informed pro-active...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Make Message Bus Probe HTTP Responses more visible in Probe Logs

If the Message Bus Probe receives too large payloads, the sender will get back the HTTP status code "413 Payload Too Large". This is correct, but in the Probes logfiles this is only documented with a warning line "payload to large".
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Monitoring SMTP calls for services

View the smtp requests made by the selected/desired service in instana. We have lot of applications that use SMTP to send emails, we expect to see the total call , success and failure count and response time metrics in instana.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Future consideration

configure RBAC on dashboards so that groups of people can edit/manage/view

The RBAC model isn't very mature, and if someone is an owner of a dashboard, only they can edit it. what happens if a change is needed when someone is away?Being able to group dashboards would also help with usability
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Not under consideration

Upgrade of JBoss to RHEL supported version

When scanning vulnereability of our application server(s), we've noticed that JBoss 4.x is no longer supported by Red Hat, which caused vulnerability flags. We've been informed that JBoss itself is tightly integrated with TNPMW application, so upg...
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

API - missing link between service and process

Hi, I'm trying to retrieve the whole application stack (AP > service > process > host) through the Instana API. Currently I'm using the following API requests: {{baseURL}}/api/application-monitoring/applications?nameFilter=xxx {{baseURL}}...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Not under consideration

Edit the evaluation granularity for a smart alert

The minimum evaluation granularity for a smart alert is limited at 5 mins, We need to change it so that we get alerts related to slow calls etc which may not persist for more than 5 minutes. Below is a real time scenario. When will a person be ale...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

Built-in Event: Kubernetes Node condition status event correlation between kubernetes node scaling events

Once our cluster scales down, usually, our node/nodes will be terminated status(or unknown). But it doesn’t mean our nodes are not healthy. It just scales down. We are getting many mentioned event notifications, and our engineers are missing the a...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration