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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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Allow ability to not actually suspend hosts, but put them in a state where no VMs will be placed on them

The way that our infrastructure is set up does not respond kindly to host suspend/power off actions, but we want to be able to densify our current environment. We'd like the ability to enable "suspend host" such that we can operate efficiently on ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Waterfall Charts in BI for ITP Data

As a user I would like to take my planning data create a waterfall chart in BI. I  want to compare from ONE ITP plan this year vs next year. Current functionality in planning only allows for comparing one plan to another vs compare the s...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Automatic Snapshot Removal

Snapshots are often taken and forgotten in the environment. They cause both unwanted storage use and performance issue to VMs if left around too long. Would like to be able to create an automation to remove\consolidate snapshots for groups based o...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 3 Planned for future release

Support for IBM FlashSystem devices under IBM SVC management

Currently, Turbonomic doesn't support FlashSystem under SVC as its considerations. One of my potential Turbo customer has FlashSystem with SVC.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

add metrics support for undertow

undertow is an open source project behind Jboss. it's one of the most popular embeded web server in Spring Boot applications. customer has obersevability for this technology. customer is interested in metrics regarding http requests and thread poo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add support for Amazon DynamoDB (Turbonomic)

Many of our customers (including potential customers) use AWS Dynamo DB, and the support for it is the key to Turbonomic's penetration to the Japanese market and customers' higher satisfaction. Your prompt cooperation to our idea would be highly a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Need a "Hostname" field when using a Remote monitoring sensor

With many of the Instana sensors that do Remote Monitoring (MQ, MQ FTE, DB2, Oracle, etc.), there isn't a field that allows a customer to identify the hostname of the remotely monitored system. I'm working with a customer that it integrating Insta...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Way to calculate license usage of product with new IP address based licensing that excludes COC objects

Hi, with new IP addressing based licensing calculations we should calculate from device manager amount of IP addresses. There are also COC objects there in the listing which also have IP addresses. Requesting a way to exclude those COC objects so ...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

More Elastic Scaling: Remove hardcoded restrictions on maximum observation period

For those customers that want to unleash Turbonomic to unlock elasticity in the cloud, we use the percentile and observation settings to help influence Turbo's decision making. However, it appears there are hardcoded limits to the minimum/maximum ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Add a new field with OS distibution info (i.e. Ubuntu 20.04) that will be displayed in host details from Instana dashboard.

Host details from Instana dashboard is showing only kernel release field (i.e. linux 5.15.0-1038-gcp). It should be useful to add the OS distribution field (i.e. Ubuntu 20.04) as well. The field should be available for Linux. This information will...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration