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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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Enable Discovery Functionality on Mttrapd Probe Version 21.1

After the Engine boot and Engine time move out of sync between the remote device and probe cache. Currently the new Mttrapd probe 21.1 is not enabled with the discovery functionality to handshake with the device to learn the SNMPv3 EngineBoot and ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Option to apply resize policies on groups of namespaces

When trying to "cleanup" the whole cluster it is pretty tedious to keep filtering by namespaces. So my workflow using Turbonomic is usually that I check the recommendations on the Turbo homepage to see where the needs for resizing are. I then crea...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 5 Future consideration

Authentication options

Since GitHub has been integrated and used in Instana, we can have GitHub as one of the authentication method in Instana. This process can avoid multiple AD/SSO configurations in tools/applications.
7 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

Support for Azure App Service Reserved Instances

Turbonomic doesn't currently discover Azure App Service reserved instances thus may raise actions to scale down for savings due to under utilisation.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Hitachi Storage target support required for Turbonomic

We have received a request from IAG (Insurance Australia Group) to reinstate the support of monitoring Hitachi Storage through Turbonomic because it is IAG's core on-premise storage. IAG is in phase of adapting Turbonomic ARM across the organisati...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Not under consideration

Save Filter, Group and Facet settings in Analytics, like Infrastructure saved filters

Analytics is great, however is a burden to repeat the filter/group criterias, and sometimes also the facets. I know, I could get the shortlink to the panel, but what happens if I miss the link ? Yes, redo everything from scratch. Please consider t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Planned for future release

Netcool Impact: manage scripts via source code management systems (Bitbucket / Git)

Add integration support to Bitbucket (Git) to allow end users to manage policy code on a project basis.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Synthetic monitoring enhanced permission

Viewer permission will be able to view the Synthetic monitoring configuration details that may contain a username/password to login to the application. Request to create enhanced permission or set up additional HBAC permission for this?
7 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Functionality already exists

Allow label mapping in analytics or custom dashboards

Example use: Visualizaton of kubernetes metrics e.g. for resource_limits
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 7 Functionality already exists

Netcool Email probe for reading HTML emails

Netcool Email probe for reading HTML email format in the Body. Current email probe is capable of reading only plain text. Many users are looking for converting html email into an alert. It requires lot of efforts to write rules for reading HTML em...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration