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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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Allow usage of namespace egress IPs in NOI on OCP installations

Our customer is extending their Netcool landscape to integrate several existing sites into one centralized NOI based on OCP. Actually there are various components within NOI on OCP, that need to connect to these already existing sites. Some exampl...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Instana: Would like to see the Availability zone as part of the trace

Currently we are unable to filter using the availability zone in the Analytics>Applications/Calls tab. You can specify the availability zone in a Smart Alert, but when you try and analyze the issue you cannot filter on the Availability Zone.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Functionality already exists

Disable irrelevant data in filters based on pre-applied filter

Is there a way for the filters in Apptio to be dependent on the other filters selection? Example, if we select Country = USA, the only states relevant to USA should be shown in States filter. States from other countries should not be visible or cl...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

ITM SQL Agent should optimize the SQL Server plan cache usage.

Problem is that currently plans are created for every query ( samples in attached document ) that means overhead in creating a lot of plans only used once and a waste of plan cache memory.That could be optimized to reduce the plan cache memory.
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Planned for future release

Add costs estimation by Container Pod

Hi, I'm working with a customer with more than 1500 workloads and base on kubernetes. It would be nice to have the estimated cost by each pod inside a cluster, so they can track and sort by most expensive cluster or pod and execute actions based o...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Functionality already exists

Remote Based Access Control (RBAC) for Log Analysis.

I have successfully implemented role-based access control (RBAC) for Log Analysis. The Log Analysis development team sent me instructions on how to implement in my Test environment. I would like to see the RBAC feature implemented in a future rele...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Allow Turbonomic be aware of edge cases and scale virtual machines to instance types that are available in the AZ

Generally, all the instance types are available within the entire region which we take into consideration but in some edge cases AWS does not make them available in a particular AZ within that region. We do not track availability within a particul...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Ignore/ suppress / downtime function for events

Currently there is function called "Maintenance windows" https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=alerts-scheduling-maintenance-windows This is lacking the functionality to prevent the events from showing up in the Events lo...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Common 0 Future consideration

Put a configurable cap on concurrent automated actions for the cloud provider to help with throttling.

The client is experiencing AWS throttling for EC2 Scaling Actions. 1000 actions can happen at the same time but can fail mid action due to AWS Throttling. . There is a setting called " properties: action-orchestrator: actionExecution.concurrentAut...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration

Add last day of month as variable like {DD}

I want the ability to run a datalink connector on the first of the month to retrieve data from the previous month, with the added capability to have {DD} variable specified as the last day of the last month. For example in a REST connector connect...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration