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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 Tag Names and Values to be searched by typing rather than death scrolling

When creating a group using Tag filters, there is no easy way to find the tag value you are looking for without scrolling through hundreds of rows, for every single tag (usually there are several needed for a single group) on every group for every...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Sort and Group Policy List

When viewing any particular entity or scope, the list of policies on the Policy tab is a randomly sorted randomly named list. Since a majority of these policies are automatically being generated by Turbonomic based on cloud provider constraints, i...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Planned for future release

Instana Agent Installation on MQ: Configuration Challenges and Retry Mechanism Concerns

We encountered some issues during the Instana Agent installation on MQ. Below are the steps we followed and our observations Initial Installation The Instana Agent was installed with the default configuration, running under the "system" account. C...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Distinguish between instance names in IBM Cloud Databases instances on Infrastructure Map.

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgresSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis" instances.Checking these instances on Infrastructure Map, all instances are listed with th...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic must provide the consistent logic as key summary(text explanation) to Admins for the recommendation action.

The image of "Turbonomic recommendation action" as attached is just an example. Turbonomic is recommending that the current AWS EC2 VM be changed from A type to B type for better resource utilization. However, we can not know why the recommendatio...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 5 Future consideration

I wanted to get access to two or more turbonomic roles with different access scope to be used at the same time with different roles.

I wanted to get access to two or more turbonomic roles with different access scope to be used at the same time. Our setup uses external authentication provider to get access to turbo SaaS application. For example, i have observer role configured w...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 3 Not under consideration

Ability to sort/filter an entity/group's Automation Workflow 'result of policy' table by the value column

Today, if you navigate to a VM > Policies > Automation Workflow, you'll see "Attribute", "Value", and "Active Policy". You have to read through them row by row. If we're able to add the functionality to sort and filter the table, we can quic...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Cloudability - select multiple values ​​when creating a filter

Hello, I have to create some reports with a lot of filters, and I would like to be able to select (check) several values in one time, instead to select the dimensions as many times as I need.
4 months ago in Cloudability 0 Submitted

ROI Policy - S3

As a FinOps practitioner at a large organization, I need to be able to track savings recommendations and actioned savings for all services. At this time, S3 is not a supported by the ROI policy so we are unable to track savings MoM.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Planned for future release

Filter Enhancement - ROI Rightsizing, Rightsizing - Upgrade Filters

Enhance filters for ROI tickets within the ROI Rightsizing module & from within report module. As a FinOps practitioner required to report on adoption rates & realized savings, I need to be able to: report on ROI tickets actioned during sp...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration