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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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Custom Dashboards need percent utilizations

in custom dashboards, is there an option to select % utilizations instead of absolute values. As an example for memory utilization, it shows the GB utilized, but, is there way to show % of the allocated memory used.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

CPU Socket adjustment.

client: " I’d like to have Turbo always set the number of CPU sockets to 2, and to adjust the cores per socket # to modify the # of vCPUs when RightSizing. Currently this is accomplished with a custom script. I would like this configurable on at t...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Functionality already exists

SQL Target Enhancement

Client would like the SQL targets to be enhanced so that they can configure them with multiple ports and potentially multiple credentials.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

over-come event watcher limitation

Hello, Whenever file watcher event fires for the first time, relevant file should not be in server path, else IWA consider it as old file and fails to submit the job. through an IBM case we came to know that it is a limitation of IWA. Due to this ...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Pod readiness alert should heed delay settings

We've got some issues with the pod readiness event. Some of our pods need some time to start. To make up for this we've set the initialDelaySeconds value on our probes. However the pod unready probe does alert after a pod has been unready for a mi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

MSSQL sensor does not support extracting the port from multiple instances(running on two different ports) on the same host

Since theMSSQL sensor does not support extracting the port from multiple instances(running on two different ports) on the same host.We can extract either the default port without the configuration or the non default port which is configured via co...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Support Azure Databases beyond MS SQL

Today Turbonomic only support DBaaS for Azure, workloads with DB Engine MS SQL Server. Customer have Postgres, MySQL and MariaDB too. My customer for instance has more than 50% of databases Postgres.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Add support for Azure SQL database

looking for Stop, Start and Scale an Azure SQL instance.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Planned for future release

Ability to RightSize a VM’s vMem and vCPU at the same time.

The clients would benefit by being able to take multiple actions at once. Increased efficiency
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Functionality already exists

Add Proxy support for FTP Monitoring with KIS Agent in ITCAM for Transactions

We are using ISM Agent (KIS) in Version 07.40.02.03 to monitor several protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, LDAP We would start with FTP monitoring, but in our company ftp connections are restricted to connect over a give ftp proxy. I was really surprised ...
about 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Future consideration