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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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Add Windows Active Directory group (Security Group) to Instana

As per support case #27832, We asked to add AD group to instana to provide the permission to groups, but that feature is not available it seems, please check to add AD group for providing permissions.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Not under consideration

Add appropriate filters to Smart alerts.

Dear colleagues, we're during PoC and noticed that creating a Smart Alert from Application perspective triggers the same component of the same application running on different OCP clusters. Detailed investigation showed that the application has th...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Not under consideration

Make action script population context aware

Turbonomic reads an existing manifest to determine where to make an action script visible when orchestrating an action. However, it only considers the phase and does not consider the entity being orchestrated. That means you can have an action scr...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Not under consideration

Ansible Automation Scripts for Agent and TEPS Installation

Clients today use ITM as a base monitoring solutions for a variety of systems. In order to easily roll out ITM to additional systems, the ask is that ITM provide ansible automation scripts to assist with installation of server and agent components.
about 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

Show all information of the selected time period in the Kubernetes views

If a time period is selected and the user want to view Events and Pods of an kubernetes object (Deployment/Service/etc.) Instana only shows the Pods and the Events of the Pods that were "online" at the endpoint of the time period. For many users t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Set the `release` label for the `kube_pod_container_status_ready` metric (and any others that have it defined) to the value of the `release` label of the pod.

I'm working on some Grafana dashboards for monitoring MCM. We'd like to be able to filter based on the pod label named release . I notice in the Prometheus kube_pod_container_status_ready metric there is a release label. It looks like that may als...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Report properly OOM pod events

Make sure all OOMs are reported properly.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 5 Not under consideration

MCM to enable an Option to provision a cluster from MCM UI

MCM to enable an Option to provision a cluster from MCM UI
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

MCM to provide the choice of BYOC (Bring your own CA signed certificate) for OCP Child Cluster on AWS

Provisioned cluster (VIA MCM) certificate is self-signed and while accessing the cluster it doesn't allow the access if you are in blue network (Ideally cluster provisioning mechanism should ask the user to provide CA signed certificate for the cl...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

My customer would like to establish a fee structure for SMB.

Background I understand that Turbonomic's target is the users who have large system which is composed over 500 VMs. My customer is considering embedding Turbonomic to their own cloud management service, and they try to sell it to SMB. Issues Curre...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Not under consideration