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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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Be able to change work station type

To simplify transition for objects defined on extended agent to dynamic pool agent. To be able to change workstation type from extended agent to dynamic pool on the go for migrations purposes.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Send emails through MS Graph API instead of SMTP

In a few months, our organization will drop SMTP support in favor of sending mails exclusively through Microsoft Graph API. As of today, it does not seem to be supported by Instana. As a workaround, we will migrate our Email alerting channels to a...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Provide user notification of unsupported cloud instance type

As CSPs release new instance types and the customer deploys them to their environment before Turbo has implemented support, notify the user of the unsupported instance types. This will ensure that the user knows that action generation is suppresse...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 4 Future consideration

bring in ANY GCP metric into Instana

Want the ability to bring in ANY GCP metric into Instana. Some of our competitors have solutions that have out of the box dashboards for specific GCP services. But, they also provide the ability to specify a configuration to bring in metrics from ...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

verify IIS credential on agent setup or show missing credential in agent log

When Installing and running agent on a Windows host hosting IIS, the agent seems read the content of the application pool and site with the local admin right.if local admin rights is removed from the user that run the app pool Instana wont be able...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add list of groups to bottom of Details page

When viewing a virtual machine or database server the details page has a list of policies at the bottom of it so you can see what's applicable. It would be handy to also see a list of group memberships since all policies are tied to a group and it...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Add group selection/filter to Overview and Actions pages

Use Case 1: When going to a list of actions, there are filters available. Add the ability to select an existing group name from the drop-down to see a subset of resource actions. Or Use Case 2: When going to the Overview page, there is a tab for W...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Action Center/Actions tab doesn't allow sorting by unique system data

In both old and new UI the Actions page only allows sorting by generic Turbonomic columns such as Non-disruptive, Reversible, Action Category and Cost Impact. It does not allow sorting the list by Tier, Disk Size/Instance Type, IOPS, Cost, New Cos...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Out of box Dashboards don't display consistent timeframes

When viewing the Dashboards such as: Cloud Executive Dashboard, Action Impact & Savings, all the widgets are using different timeframes and manual drop-down also doesn't offer consistent time frame. Example 1: The slider bar at the top shows 2...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Track metadata on when a policy was created, modified and by who

Currently there is nowhere in the policy list to see who created it, when it was created, when it was modified or who the culprit is. This type of basic logging would be very useful when you have hundreds of people active in the tool at the same t...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration