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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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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...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 7 Future consideration

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...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Direct Access to a Complete List of Successful and Failed Actions

To enhance transparency and accountability, Turbonomic should implement a comprehensive audit trail capturing all actions (including successful and failed attempts) and configuration changes within the platform. This will enable clients to easily ...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Retroactive proposals (before 90 days)

I want you to make recommendations using any 90 days of data from the past.Not the last 90 days.The goal is to provide recommendations that take into account past load peaks so that users can perform optimizations in a planned manner. Attach a ref...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 2 Future consideration

Print pdf layout in CT to consider custom colour paltette applied to a report

The print to pdf feature in Cost Transparency, prints the report using the standard colour palette. Although applying a custom colour palette to a report, the print functionality doesn't consider the custom colours.
7 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Import Data Mapping from Turbonomic ontology

Turbonomic uses the data it has access to in order to create a mapping of which resources belong to which applications. Customer would like to be able to reuse this classification to map the cost data to match the Turbonomic categorization.
25 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

VVOL volumes are not providing data to Turbonomic. So the data cannot be stitched.

A customer with a vcenter target utilizing Pure Storage is missing storage capacity and usage information (storage access IOPS / latency) in Turbo for some VMs, but are getting those metrics for other VMs discovered from the same vCenter target , ...

Additional Reserved Instance Recommendations - Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Only the compute costs are included with a reservation. A reservation doesn't cover software, networking, or storage charges associated with the PostgreSQL Database servers. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers ...
26 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 0 Submitted

support for aws china region and azure china region

csm is proposing Turbonomic to customer MCDONALDS-CN together with seller and tech sales team. customer is satisfied with the POC result against their VMware and K8S environment, wish Turbonomic can support their public cloud providers(Azure China...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

SLO window size increase

Currently windows size for SLOs is 4 weeks. Considering data retention is 13 months it would make sense to be able to select your window size to any specific size within that period. This would allow to check SLOs and error budgets evolutions over...
about 2 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Under review