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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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Import Data Mapping from Turbonomic ontology

Turbonomic uses the data it has access to in order to create a mapping of which resources belong to which applications. Customer would like to be able to reuse this classification to map the cost data to match the Turbonomic categorization.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

VVOL volumes are not providing data to Turbonomic. So the data cannot be stitched.

A customer with a vcenter target utilizing Pure Storage is missing storage capacity and usage information (storage access IOPS / latency) in Turbo for some VMs, but are getting those metrics for other VMs discovered from the same vCenter target , ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Under review

Additional Reserved Instance Recommendations - Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Only the compute costs are included with a reservation. A reservation doesn't cover software, networking, or storage charges associated with the PostgreSQL Database servers. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 0 Submitted

CNEA doesn't create the groups for the events that occurred during CNEA outage due to any of the following reasons - looking for Native solution

CNEA doesn't create groups for the events that occurred during CNEA outage due to any of the following reasons. i. CNEA data flow issues ii. Down time due to backup process for Cassandra database customer is expecting once their downtime is over o...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

FTP monitoring in ace

In ACE, for many clients, we have numerous flows that receive input from files, especially via FTP. However, we have noticed that Instana is unable to trace these inputs. It would be beneficial to monitor this scenario as well.
6 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Future consideration

IMPROVE AND ALLOW MAP GEO CAPABILITY

1. I would like to duplicate an existing map from the explore->maps screen 2. Map permissions/sharing should mimic reports/shortcuts/etc. public/private/team/tenant/specific users 3. Topology widgets have no way to not be in 'GEO' mode which ne...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Allow To Make Project Required Field For Team Creation

Please make it possible to set Project as a required field for creating a new Team.
11 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Loop prevention between JOBSTREAMs in the current plan on IWS MDM

Loop prevention between JOBSTREAMs in the current plan on IWS MDM The subject of the development request concerns the detection of loops on the current plan of IWS MDM Linux in the Forcast process and the blocking of the calculation of the curr...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Instana agent to not monitor ALL Kubernetes "cluster" namespaces - ability to monitor only specific namespaces within a single cluster

Customer has all environments i.e. dev, uat, prod within the same cluster in Kubernetes. Now since Instana agent has been installed at the cluster level, it has picked up all the included nodes and namespaces This has resulted in increase of no. o...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

we can create a report for any Mon-Fri dates, but we cannot isolate the timing to only show 9a-5p only.

End customer is interested in seeing business hour only on reporting
5 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 3 Functionality already exists