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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 for CPU Increment Size in vCPU Scaling Controlsto be extrapolated from "Change" field

We, like many customers, require the ability to increment by 2 (avoid odd number of cores) regardless of scaling control type. Currently, the tool only allows for that to be adjusted if we change "Virtual CPU". We need more granularity in ways we ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Allow "patch" method to HTTP actions

When I try to create an HTTP action in Instana Automation feature, I can see the most common HTTP actions such as GET, POST, PUT and DELETE, but some APIs require the PATCH method, which represents a partial update https://developer.mozilla.org/en...
4 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Future consideration

Remote monitoring PostgreSQL

With switching to a new hosting provider we won't be able to install Instana agent locally to PostgreSQL-servers anymore. To have end-to-end visibility, please provide a means to configure the Instana agent to monitor PostgreSQL clusters running o...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Would like to be able to check who has logged into WebGUI in the past. Can get active users but would like to be able to report history of logged in users.

Audit of users for NOC managers and Audit teams.
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Please add support for Performance Plus for Azure Disk Storage

Using Performance Plus for Azure Disk Storage (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/disks-enable-performance?tabs=azure-cli ) an Azure customer can opt-in for this IOPS and thoughput for Azure disks. Please add support for ...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Authentication method to support OAUTH METHOD

Hi, While configuring the OAUTH method to run the Oracle integration cloud jobs we identified that there is need to add additional enhancement in the IWA restful plugin. Client authentication :- Send as Basic Auth header. Grant type : Password cre...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic to give recommendations for Azure VM Scale Sets.

A lot of corporations have Azure VM Scale Sets which are improperly configured. They are set to scale OUT but not IN. And there is a lot of waste. Would love it if VM Scale Sets are treated differently and recommendations given - e..g SCALE IN for...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Set the remote monitoring interval for Oracle database

In TS015830047, IBM Support Services responded that the expected behavior for remote monitoring of Oracle DB is that if the connection fails, it will only be retried after a 10 minute interval. It's a long time to be unable to monitor for 10 minut...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Custom Dashboard editing permission based on groups

Permission for team members based on user groups for editing custom dashboards. Business Use CaseCustomer have teams working 24x7 and in case if an on-shift person wants to edit the dashboards they need to explicitly grant permission to edit.They ...
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Events add - ability to add the joblog from a batch job Event Rule in the Event Email that is sent out to individuals

This is useful because customers can see just in their email what the issue in the joblog was.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration