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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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Certificate support for technical users

An enterprise business would rather like the opportunity to use certificates as a means of authentication for the technical users driving the Dynamic Workload Console.During installation two specific technical users are needed for DWC (One databas...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Under review

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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration

Allow for the use of 12:xx to be used in time fields

Since moving to v10.1, we have noticed that the Workload Designer does not allow us to use the "twelve o'clock hour" in any of the time fields. This has been tested by our team at stream level as well as within a run cycle, on the earliest start t...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

ITM Windows Agent to use latest VC++ redist version which is currently supported by Microsoft and remove dependency of using VC++ 2008, 2013

Currently ITM Windows OS Agent (NT) is using VC++ 2008 release up to SP5 and VC++ 2013 release from SP6 and above. Both VC++ releases were no longer supported by Microsoft which results in compliance Issue and can also be a security threat. So, we...
5 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 6 Planned for future release

Create event on CPU/Memory usage (K8S)

Hi, We want to configure an Instana event on Kubernetes. This event should warn us when the used memory or cpu is at a certain level on the deployment. Currenly it is not possible to create an event on this. Can you create this possibility? Thanks...
7 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

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

Gather Serilog data from serilog sink

Serilog uses sinks for writing log events to storage in various formats. Add option for instana to collect Serilog logs with sink to compete with Dynatrace, datadog and New Relic that do this today. This is a list of competitors that already have ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

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

Pricing adjustments for all clouds

Currently there is a way to input a pricing adjustment for AWS services but not Azure or GCP. It's possible this info is derived another way but the configuration UI is inconsistent.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration