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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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Enabling the option of ordering SLOs by status

We would like to have the option to order SLOs by status AND/OR having the change to filter those which have their budget exhausted. This feature at the Service Levels panel would make the tools more user-friendly, in my opinion.
19 days ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

Limit the number of children events in Scope Based Event Grouping Policy

Currently, any number of children events can be added to a parent event or group using Scope Based Event Grouping. At present, 100s of events can be grouped under a single parent group. However, there should be a way to limit the number of childre...
20 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Include Disk USED vs Provisioned as a rightsizing recommendation

As a new rightsizing opportunity, for customers who have enhanced CW metrics enabled on their EC2 instances could we look to including a capability to check the actually utilized disk vs what was provisioned, eg: you're only using 10GB of a 1TB pr...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Enable Redis monitoring with certificates for Instana

Instana's current monitoring config the Redis instance does not use credentials to ensure monitor & retrieve data security, which means it does not support certificates. The lack of certificates support may become a shortcoming in future secur...
2 months ago in Instana / Automation 3 Planned for future release

Target health check “TEST button”

Hi Team :-) In Legacy PMC product we have a TEST button which can check the health of the Target. I think it would be amazing to have the same in Turbonomic Here below how it works: After you run TEST, and let's say, there is any issue with List r...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 3 Future consideration

Need options other than helm to install the synthetic PoP servers

I'm working with a customer that has access to the kubernetes cluster, but doesn't have access to helm. So, he can't install the synthetic playback (PoP server). We need to provide other options for installing the PoP server. Ideally, provide both...
29 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Concurrent logging on DASH portal enabled but limited to a configurable number

Users require having concurrent sessions enabled and set to never expire. However, with this configuration, the number of active sessions can continuously grow, potentially leading to memory leaks. To address this, we need an option to limit the n...
20 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Anomoly detection for incorrect pricing being received from vendors

Recent pricing anomolies in dev/test SKU pricing for certain Intel SKUs in North Switzerland resulted in 'incorrect' optimisation opportunities being presented to customer. Whilst the fault was with Microsoft and their pricing, the impact was seen...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Object Groups in the Metadata widget: Allow the source group to be a Class. Allow for a regex pattern to filter the object groups within the selected Class.

It would allow the widget to display object groups that were dynamically added. It would allow more control over which groups get displayed.
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

User-defined CCSID handling of Z APM (Instana z/OS)

For Instana z/OS, when it tries to add the RFH V2 header for CICS-MQ-CICS or Outbound tracking - it would convert some data between IBM500 and the CCSID in the MQ header(s), by using z/OS Unicode conversion services to do the conversion. If the CC...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Planned for future release