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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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A status page for Turbonomic SaaS

Why is it useful? A dedicated SaaS status page for Turbonomic provides transparency to customers by delivering real-time updates on system performance, service availability, and ongoing incidents. This fosters trust and enhances the customer exper...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Under review

Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
28 days ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Under review

Turbonomic: Add support to install OVA on Nutanix Acropolis (not just target support)

As a customer, we need Turbonomic to support installations of on-prem Turbonomic servers, including SaaS components on Nutanix.Nutanix publishes a how-to for importing an OVA and running it. However this needs to be tested and supported by the pro...
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 15 Planned for future release

Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Improved Support for Lightweight Kubernetes Distributions

As Kubernetes adoption continues to grow, many developers and organizations are leveraging lightweight Kubernetes distributions like MicroK8s, Minikube, and Kind for development, testing, and smaller-scale production deployments. However, the curr...
6 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Monitoring .NET Framework Applications on Mono in Kubernetes

Costumers that are migrating to .NET Core usually start by transitioning from IIS to Kubernetes clusters. During this migration journey, many organizations also need to maintain legacy .NET Framework applications for compatibility reasons, especia...
6 days ago in Instana / .NET 0 Submitted

Allowing Scheduling of a Parking Schedule Pause

We have a need to plan/schedule Parking Schedule Pauses to allow developers/engineers to plan maintain windows into existing Parking Schedules. So currently we have parking schedules in place and our sysadmins can pause a parking schedule for a pe...
21 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Collapsible bottom panel on Incident > Affected Resources tab

In an Incident, the Affected Resources tab has a bottom panel which is not collapsible and leaves very little room to examine the topology graph.
14 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Instana built-in health metrics

Instana backend provide built-in dashboard panels showing basic health metrics e.g. agent connection status, data delivery etc., backend data ingress and data ingestion status e.g. infrastructure, eum, events, user and apm
9 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Submitted

Default API URL for reports should include all rows of data instead of only displayed rows

When copying API URLs, currently the default is to copy only the displayed rows (first page) of the report data when the Component Information URL is copied. "&rowCount=1000000000" must be added on to include the entire report. It would be mor...
16 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Filter in Turbonomic to be persistent

We need the UI filters to be persistent across the user session when they navigate to different screens and pages. And the option to recall and apply the saved/persisted filter to be applied when the session is logged out and logged in again
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted