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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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Status: Email of Status with Plan Name

looking for the feature to send the email with plan name any plan is submitted and opened and approved by CC owner, Project owner and Department owner. 
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Horizontal scroll for tabs in a tab group

The tabbed group component on a report should have a scroll option in cases where there are more tabs than the width of the tabbed group will allow to be seen.  This might potentially have more of an impact in Studio when a report is checked ...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Future consideration

change time frame resolution in Chart: Time Series.

We want to change the resolution as shown in the chart time series graphs, Instana establishes by default a granularity according to the time frame that one selects., we want to change the resolution in a personalized way, it would allow us to ana...
7 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

configure RBAC on dashboards so that groups of people can edit/manage/view

The RBAC model isn't very mature, and if someone is an owner of a dashboard, only they can edit it. what happens if a change is needed when someone is away?Being able to group dashboards would also help with usability
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Future consideration

Ability to create SmartAlert based of the executed Analyse query

When in unbounded analytics finding an "interesting" situation it would be practical to directly create a SmartAlert based on this to be alerted in case such situation arises again,
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Move enable/disable disruptive actions from Policy wide to action type

The option to enable/disable disruptive actions policy-wide is very restrictive. Most downscale actions are disruptive, but most upscale actions can be non-disruptive. In the current implementation, only a group of VM can be marked with this setti...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Integration with Microsoft Teams

We would love it if your were able to integrate TP with Microsoft teams which would help support us in trying to reduce the amount of different areas for conversations document storage etc. and more importantly tracking/project feedback.
about 4 years ago in Targetprocess / Other Integrations 0 Under review

Google Cloud Run Support (serverless GKE)

As a user of Cloud Run, can Turbonomic help manage the tradeoffs of running services, maintaining a minimum number of replicas for the burst scenario, but avoiding unnecessary cost in idle services.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

IBM MQ MFT: include host names in alert payloads (remote monitoring use case)

When monitoring IBM MQ MFT remotely, alert payloads do not include the hostname where the issue occurred. This request is to include the hostname where issues occur into the alert payload.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / MQ / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Alert if Device does not respond to SNMP polling

Customer has faced instances where the monitored device is successfully discovered via SNMP but the SNMP daemon on the device freezes resulting in no successful SNMP polls while the device responds to ICMP. Customer wants to be notified when such ...
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists