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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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API - Kubernetes Pod Memory/CPU Usage

The catalog API call for kubernetes pod metrics (/api/infrastructure-monitoring/catalog/metrics/kubernetesPod) got me the following output: "metricId":"cpuRequests" "metricId":"memoryLimits" "metricId":"container_count" "metricId":"memoryRe...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Future consideration

For HA workloads (consistent resize), allow Match Cores

Today Turbonomic matches utilization based on MHz. There are use cases for when teams would want to have all their vms have matching core counts. Please add functionality to match by core count for Consistent Resize capability.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Specify multiple threshold values, to have different during day/night

Our network traffic pattern is similar to a sine-cure. During the day, around 100 000 request and during the night, around 20 000 calls. The reason for this pattern, is simply that our end-users are sleeping during the night thus, a less number of...
11 months ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 2 Not under consideration

AWS discovery sensor to support AWS temporary credentials, not just long term credentials

There are 2 types of credentials available when accessing AWS' public URL - temporary, and long term. My organisation, in consultation with AWS, have implemented an AWS security policy that only allows the use of temporary access credentials.Since...
11 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Planned for future release

The Transformation maps should be in Persistent volume or there should be config maps to define transformation maps.

Currently, Cloud Native Watson AIOPS have no stable way to add wires, as custom transformation are deleted with WebGUI pod is restarted. There has be better way tom manage custom wire for user defined dashboards.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Stastd Metric Group by tag

We were collecting Statsd Metrics in this format Metric + Tag name abacus.emailSent#template=account_activated , abacus.emailSent#template=cards_txs_nudge , We would like to have a time line series to group them by tag of each metric and aggregati...
over 2 years ago in Instana 2 Planned for future release

add a rm /tmp/rm$$ stanza in a rmstdlist command

because a rmstdlist command does not clean there temporary file.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Ability to add dependencies to individual run cycles

Ability to add dependencies to individual run cycles. Currently can't. See highlighted example below of what is required. We have a jobstream with multiple runcycles, but want one of those runcycle to follow another jobstream, not them all. We hav...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

allow using groups based on virtual machines as a scope for volume policies

at the moment, volume policies are only configurable by resource group. we want machines that in lots of different resource groups to be in scope for a policy
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

IWA need to invoke script only when all the automatic rerun attempt has been finished.

1. IWA to invoke Python script only after final attempt of re-run of a given job fails a. We need to submit script using adhoc job in event rule whenever there is a job ABEND, when all the automatic reruns/ iterations are completed. b. Currently t...
11 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Not under consideration