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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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CNEA doesn't create the groups for the events that occurred during CNEA outage due to any of the following reasons - looking for Native solution

CNEA doesn't create groups for the events that occurred during CNEA outage due to any of the following reasons. i. CNEA data flow issues ii. Down time due to backup process for Cassandra database customer is expecting once their downtime is over o...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Missing self monitoring from documentation for every release

As we are self hosting our instana backend we need to know what metrics etc we need to look for to make sure the instana backend is running correctly. As of now we have to guess what metric we have to check.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Project cost savings based on parking schedules

As a user of Turbonomic I would like the ability to project cost savings based on parking schedules and resources selected, so that I can predict and plan for the cost savings associated with parking the workloads.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 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

Enterprise level support for target management. More information and downloads.

This was a request from a large customer with hundreds of targets. Some of which are labeled critical - even though they might still be working - and might just be delayed - can the reason for the CRTICAL be more easily found. ideally we can downl...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Future consideration

Loop prevention between JOBSTREAMs in the current plan on IWS MDM

Loop prevention between JOBSTREAMs in the current plan on IWS MDM The subject of the development request concerns the detection of loops on the current plan of IWS MDM Linux in the Forcast process and the blocking of the calculation of the curr...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Instana agent to not monitor ALL Kubernetes "cluster" namespaces - ability to monitor only specific namespaces within a single cluster

Customer has all environments i.e. dev, uat, prod within the same cluster in Kubernetes. Now since Instana agent has been installed at the cluster level, it has picked up all the included nodes and namespaces This has resulted in increase of no. o...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 2 Functionality already exists

Include a simple method to import AD/LDAP certificates for external authentication

The current method to import the LDAP certificate to allow for external AD authentication is extremely complex, cumbersome, time consuming, and error prone. Multiple troubleshooting sessions are needed at times to figure out how to get the certifi...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 1 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

Custom events to support dynamic macros

Today, when we create custom event, we specify the title and description along with the event trigger criteria. Based on the trigger, event with the given title is created. And we see multiple events with same title, based on how many such events ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review