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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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Enhance the maintenance windows to give the possibility to decide what to suppress (Alerts, Events, Automation Policies)

I've recently started to configure instana for my IBMi environment, and after setting up my automation policies, i stumbled across the maintenance window which was my logical choice to prevent those policies to run within the maintenance scope (da...
14 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted
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In GCP there are Flex CUDs that are used to reduce Ondemand costs on compute Resources. Turbonomic should discover and take Flex CUDs in consideration when rightsizing

This is useful as more clients on GCP are moving towards flex cuds and Turbonomic's rightsizing decisions need to take those into consideration to have trustworthy decisions on GCP compute resources.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Correctly Calculate Parking Realized Savings

In the Executed Actions widget, the savings realized by suspend actions (as a consequence of a parking schedule) are incorrectly calculated. We downloaded the exported file and validated multiple cases. In the first place, it calculates the saving...
20 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Tree view for Projects dropdown similar to Departments dropdown in ITP

Projects dropdown will display top-level nodes with expand/collapse options to drill into lower levels. Provides clear visibility of hierarchy, improves navigation, and ensures consistency with the Departments dropdown. It will save time for users...
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

Instana agents count metric not available in Smart Alerts

From customer: While attempting to create an alert to monitor the metric "Count (Number of reporting Instana Agents)", we noticed that this metric is not available under: Infrastructure → Create Smart Alert → Metric → Select metric, Interestingly,...
8 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Start basic remote monitoring for detected unmonitored hosts

Capability to refine unmonitored services and be able to create an infrastructure representation of still unmonitored host (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.302?topic=instana-monitoring-applications#the-unmonitored-infrastruct...
12 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Support BAW on CP4BA in Instana Business Monitoring

Currently, IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) running on Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) is not fully supported in Instana Business Monitoring.BPM calls from BAW are detected but not processed correctly — the bizops-writer does not c...
25 days ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Submitted

Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Integration with Chef

Potential customer is currently going through a PoV for Concert Workflows. They rely heavily on Chef for managing their On-Prem infrastructure. Asking if we can introduce a new integration with Chef for this evaluation. The Vendor in consideration...
19 days ago in Concert Workflows 1 Needs more information

Turbonomic's parking functionality issue for Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) running Windows instances (non-Spot)

We are working with the ITAU customer who is experiencing performance issues with the parking functionality in Turbonomic for Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) running Windows instances (non-Spot).The issue is that Turbonomic's current parking behavior t...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review