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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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A Jira ticket should be unlinked after it has been closed.

Once a Jira ticket for rightsizing has been cancelled/closed/deleted it should be unlinked from the resource in Cloudability. Currently tickets are not automatically unlinked from recommendations even once the Jira ticket is moved to a resolved or...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 0 Submitted

AI-Powered Chatbot for Cloudability Assistance

One of my customers - DLA Piper, proposed adding an AI-powered chatbot (similar to ChatGPT) to assist users with Cloudability-related queries and tasks. This chatbot would provide real-time, step-by-step guidance, improving user experience and red...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Filtering options in custom dashboards

Add live filter options in customer dashboard. Say you have an custom dashboard for one specific application to see the overview. But then you want to filter in that dashboard for a specific user, server etc. Just like you have filter options in A...
2 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

Capability to monitor database blockings & wait times in instana

We are unable to monitor databases using Instana, as we don't see options for tracking database blocking, wait times, and similar metrics. Databases: RDS Postgre MSSQL
5 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Delete actions, such as unnecessary snapshots and virtual NICs

I would like you to present actions to reduce waste other than VMs, Volumes, and DBs. I want to centrally manage wasted resources with Turbonomic.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Planned for future release

Alert for IIS Worker Pool/Application Pool Down

Why is it useful? To ensure reduce MTTR of IIS application downtime. Who would benefit from it? SREs and IT teams managing IIS-hosted applications. How should it work? Automatically trigger alerts when an IIS Worker/Application Pool stops or goes ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / .NET 0 Under review

Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s

Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s. We should ability to setup alert and dashboards.
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

On IBM AIX, Instana should not count filecache (completely) as "used_memory"

AIX by default uses available memory as filecache (between limits set by parameters minperm% and maxperm%), usually up to 90% of the total memory size. When the applications use only a small portion of available memory, the remainder (or large par...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM Power 2 Future consideration

GlassFish Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application when it is not enabled.
15 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

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...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 3 Future consideration