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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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Automatically enable CPU and Memory hotadd

I would like to see a policy option for enabling hot-add as part of a pre or post action. this would simply adoption and onboarding of Virtual machines.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 5 Planned for future release

Azure Savings Plans for compute (VMs)

Earlier this year Azure came up with Savings plans support for compute. Similar in concept to AWS Savings plans. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/offers/savings-plan-compute/#benefits-and-features Product does not currently support this. ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Planned for future release

Kafka Cluster Consumer Group Metrics at the Partition Level

I would like to monitor Kafka consumer group metrics such as current offset, log end offset, lag, throughput, etc., at the partition level. This would be similar to the metrics provided by the kafka-consumer-groups.sh CLI tool: ▶ bin/kafka-consume...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Integrate, CyberArk with the Turbonomic

It is required to integrate, CyberArk with the Turbonomic tool is simply to have a single point of management for the service account credentials that we use in Turbonomic towards Cloud Providers (AWS, GCP, AZURE). CyberArk Secrets Manager uses a ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Future consideration

Support for VMware vCenter V8 discovery

Support for the discovery of the VMware vCenter V8 is needed.
7 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Future consideration

Azure extension install & update

The only way to install and update the Instana Azure extension is my manuell clicking in the Azure webUI. This is not a scalable solution if you have hundreds of App Services. There should be a way to install och update the Instana Azure extension...
10 months ago in Instana / .NET 3 Planned for future release

Allow Custom SQL in TEP/TEMS accept SUBSTR, COUNT(*) and GROUP BY SQL functions

The purpose of this idea is to allow TEP/TEMS run queries that summarize the DB2 z/OS thread status by using only the first 4 characteres of the package name. These first 4 characters indicate the application name the package belongs to, so this w...
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Add list of groups to bottom of Details page

When viewing a virtual machine or database server the details page has a list of policies at the bottom of it so you can see what's applicable. It would be handy to also see a list of group memberships since all policies are tied to a group and it...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Add list of Policies to bottom of Volume details page for consistency

When viewing a virtual machine or database server the details page has a list of policies at the bottom of it, so you can see what's applicable. It would be handy to also see this list on volumes.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Add group selection/filter to Overview and Actions pages

Use Case 1: When going to a list of actions, there are filters available. Add the ability to select an existing group name from the drop-down to see a subset of resource actions. Or Use Case 2: When going to the Overview page, there is a tab for W...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration