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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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Remove the first 3 characters currently rendered to denote the group in 'scope-based' searching

When clicking the first time on "scope-based" and enable the second sorting on "temporal" the alarms with temporal grouping are not sorted at all (even when hitting it multiple times). The Development Team has indicated there's a plan for a tweak ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support the use of kubernetes ServiceAccounts for AWS authorization

Currently the AWS agent can only be deployed on EC2 or ECS. Since we moved to EKS we would like to run the AWS agent inside EKS but without passing credentials to the serivce. The AWS way of doing this would be to assign an IAM role to the Service...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

User-friendly message for unauthorized users

Today, when user is not authorized (i.e.: not part of any External Group in Turbo), Turbo displays a 500 server error: 500 Server Error: "{"type":500,"exception":"com.vmturbo.auth.api.authorization.AuthorizationException: Unable to authorize the u...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Simplified UI for Agent configuration

Many times Client find it difficult to edit configuration.yaml for agent configuration as this is huge file, indentation sensitive and not so user friendly. A more intuitive UI for making changes to agent configuration is requested through this idea.
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Exclude Local FileSystem from monitoring

Currently, there is only option to INCLUDE REMOTE filesystems to be monitored within Instana agent configuration file. Customer is looking for the option to EXCLUDE LOCAL filesystem from monitoring. They do have some filesystems which are nearly f...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Functionality already exists

JSON functions for rules file processing

The recently published OMNIbus 8.1.0 FP24 containes a new set of JSON processing ObjectServer SQL functions named json_prop_get, json_prop_set, and json_prop_dedup. This is great news! We'd highly appreciate having similar functions available in r...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Increase/decrease alert severity based on number alert occurrences

Goal is to minimize impact of flapping alerts. By using this feature SevOne users could set up exact number of alert occurrences after which they want to be notified in warning/error/critical severity. It will reduce spending time on alerts that a...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 2 Planned for future release

Get Turbonomic Recommendations for AWS Lambda

As customers advance in cloud usage, there's a shift towards server-less setups for both services and apps. Picking the correct Lambda setting based on needs is tricky, with each choice having its cost implications. It would me more useful if Turb...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 0 Future consideration

List View Visual Encoding for Cells

We want to use the visual encoding feature for some lists. But we don't want to colorize the complete row; we only want a cell in a particular color.Example:Instead ofWe would like
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Consolidated device inventory report and ad hoc email feature

Currently sevone device inventory report is very limited with fields. Even though sevone have the data many of the device properties are unable to use it in report without additional customization. Suppose if a device kept in maintenance , we won'...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 4 Future consideration