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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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Policy Toggles to enable/disable a specific policy

Use case 1: Auto imported policies are not needed and are interfering with user defined policies. Enable a policy toggle to disable it at the policy level in Turbonomic so that no resources are affected by it. A bulk selection and disable menu ava...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Create an option for latest gen storage or instance types

Turbonomic could be able to help assist in lifecycle management activities by suggesting only newer (assuming less expensive) hardware types. This avoids having to update hundreds of policies where explicit selections were previously made. Example...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Rate of Resize without Limitation

Hello, we faced a strange problem where a VM with 5% utilization in the 95th percentile had no action. After investigation with the Support we came to the conclusion that it is like this because Turbonomic would scale down the VM below the Applica...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Under review

Create Business Perspective per Process Application

When creating a new Perspective in the Business Monitoring capability of Instana I would like to be able to filter on Process Applications to be able to create a Perspective per Process Application. All business processes for that Process Applicat...
3 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Show stack trace on 1st call in a trace

Currently the customer is showing stack traces on 2nd call, but the first call in a trace doesn't contain stack trace. We need this functionality for analysis of the 1st call of the trace.
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Turbonomic (Cloud) integration with Microsoft Azure Client/Custom Policies

We define policies in Microsoft Azure to provide subscription management for Virtual Machine size limitations. Turbonomic cannot currently read custom Azure policy and will therefore recommend, and attempt, to resize certain VM sizes. These Turbon...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration

Can you setup an alert on the network time and self time

Can you setup an alert on the network time and self time Attached screenshot for the reference Thanks Vasu
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 1 Needs more information

Request for New Feature in IBM Instana - Monitoring and Alerting of IBMi Job Status

I would like to propose a new feature for IBM Instana that would significantly enhance its monitoring capabilities for IBMi systems. Currently, there is no direct mechanism to monitor and alert based on the status of jobs running on IBMi environme...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Adding Redhat KVM as a supported hypervisor.

Please add Redhat KVM as a supported hypervisor for on-premises environments. https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/virtualization/what-is-KVM
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Topology mapping of devices per OSPF areas

For troubleshooting purposes, we need ability to restrict displayed devices to specific OSPF areas. Currently, Resource type filter allows topology items but only for Object groups, not Device groups.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 2 Future consideration