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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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Turbonomic recommendations for backup servers

Telefónica has HP Apollo Backup servers (ProLiant XL420 Gen10) integrated with Veritas NetBackup software. The backup is something that fills up over time and there is often no good criterion for deleting old backups or reducing retentions for cer...

Add a new column with sharing URL inside downloaded csv file of Turbo recommendations

Requests to include a column that includes the sharing URL for each recommendation.
15 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Change units in downloaded csv file with recommendations

The units appear in KB and the client requests GB. It is a much more manageable and realistic unit given the current sizes.
15 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Submitted

Auto-detect and exclude Hosts dedicated for maintenance/operational vacancy

Telefónica intentionally has some empty hosts, without load, exclusively to move load there during update/maintenance/obsolescence tasks. It is not a fixed rule, but it is usually one free host for every 8 or 9 hosts. This Telefónica's policy is a...
15 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Submitted

Request the implementation of visibility for the AccountingOrigin value within Instana

We would like to request the ACE Instana sensor to collect the Accounting Origin and for it to be displayed with ACE message flow stats. We have multiple MLP implementations that share a single message flow. Currently, we populate the Accounting O...
21 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 3 Submitted

AI for future migration/lift/shift.

I am an IBM customer involved in a years long effort to lift and shift out of now unsupported IIB to ACE. Lots of manual stare/compare. Need to apply AI tactically to be able to do first cut of that in next thing past ACE so I dont have to do this...
4 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Enhance Cloudability Dashboarding/Reporting with Multi-View Email Notifications

Enhance Cloudability's reporting capabilities to allow users to configure email notifications for multiple views simultaneously. This could involve: Multi-view emails subscriptions - Allow users to configure/receive emails for each view user is pa...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Allow Token or userid password from IBM MQ to Instana agent

IBM MQ introduced telemtry as per doc : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.4?topic=operator-integrating-mq-instana-tracing It doe snot provide secure conection and authentication option when configuring on-prem or non ibm otel providers. Also, t...
4 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Allow customers to remove disassociated cloud accounts from Vendor Credentials

It would be good to have the ability to remove accounts from Vendor Credentials that are disassociated or removed from the cloud provider. It doesn't cause harm; it's a question of clean-up and overall management.
4 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Submitted

Improve Right Sizing ROI policy to filter out different types (e.g. ignore EBS gp2/sc1 recommendations)

Currently seeing lot's of recommendations to change EBS to GP2. AWS is strongly recommending moving GP2 to GP3 so it's bizarre to recommend the reverse. Want to alter the policy to ignore such options, or only show GP3.
4 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation 0 Submitted