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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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Place holder for "offline" Event types

We have created alert based on "Offline" event, if a service goes down. But we need to insert a "place holder" so that it shows us what is the service which went offline in subject line or heading. This will help us identifying quickly what servic...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

Ignoring a proposed action for a certain period of time (hiding it from the Pending Action list for that period).

Turbonomic can generate many actions, but sometimes you may want to ignore a proposed action for a certain period of time after understanding its content. In such cases, it would be useful for operations if you could check the relevant action and ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 5 Future consideration

Need to be able to schedule CSV file delivery

My customer require the ability to get reports in CSV file formats for incorporation into they're own reporting.
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Planned for future release

Limitation to load 10K records in the Service List

Major Telcos could have more than 10K Services. The SOA architecture limitation does not allow more than 10K services to be shown in a single page. The DI widgets provide search option only within the current page which is not a good user experience.
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Enhancement of Topology API to provide the "hostname" of the deleted/terminated resources.

NTT (Customer) is using our /events API to retrieve all events. The events API provides the snapshotId of the entity, such as a process. They want the host information for that process, and we suggested using the topology API (/api/infrastructure-...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Planned for future release

Integrate policy scheduling for on prem actions by scheduled maintenance windows

We had purchased a custom integration which was crafted by Ray Mileo and John Fabry which integrates scheduled maintenance windows in our turbonomic solution which creates policies based on configured maintenance windows / patching cycles of our W...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Needs more information

Request for Modification to "Parker" Role in Turbo SaaS

Reviewing the new "parker" role in Turbo SaaS and would like to request a modification. Our goal is to assign this role to a large number of users and make Turbo self-service for parking activities. Currently, the role allows users to create and u...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 7 Future consideration

Turbonomic must provide the consistent logic as key summary(text explanation) to Admins for the recommendation action.

The image of "Turbonomic recommendation action" as attached is just an example. Turbonomic is recommending that the current AWS EC2 VM be changed from A type to B type for better resource utilization. However, we can not know why the recommendatio...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 5 Future consideration

Authentication mechanism used for the AWS Observer

One of our customer has a security policy in place, that enforces the following mechanism to be used when accessing AWS: The mechanism is to assume an IAM role in the AWS account using the 'sts:AssumeRoleWithSAML' AWS API call. This returns a set ...
5 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Add Alert Channels as scope option in Maintenance Windows

Context: Instana's Maintenance Windows feature offers, at the moment, either Application Perspective, Selected Entities (Dynamic Focus) or Synthetic Tests as scopes in order to generate silence windows. Problem: Maintenance Windows is the only fea...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration