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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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Need options other than helm to install the synthetic PoP servers

I'm working with a customer that has access to the kubernetes cluster, but doesn't have access to helm. So, he can't install the synthetic playback (PoP server). We need to provide other options for installing the PoP server. Ideally, provide both...
3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

Retroactive proposals (before 90 days)

I want you to make recommendations using any 90 days of data from the past.Not the last 90 days.The goal is to provide recommendations that take into account past load peaks so that users can perform optimizations in a planned manner. Attach a ref...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 2 Future consideration

Amazon recently announced DB2 on RDS. We'd like to take advantages of AWS infrastructure and ensure DB2 RDS is fully supported with IWS.

Amazon recently announced DB2 on RDS. We'd like to take advantages of AWS infrastructure and ensure DB2 RDS is fully supported with IWS.I know that the product is supported by it's version and platform may not impact it. However, I'd like to ensur...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Azure Application Insights monitoring

Support for collecting metrics, traces and logs from Azure Application InSight. This would enable insight into SaaS applications.
9 months ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Allow for Key Milestones to Appear on Roadmap Views

It would be helpful to have the option to display key milestones on epic roadmaps so we can see what the milestones for that specific epic are. Currently, we only have the ability to show milestones with the standard milestone in the system, but t...

NFS support

Please extend your code to allow pods to use NFS without creation of PV. support documentation can be found here: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes/#nfs
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Read Only Users

A Read-Only user, similar to the Observer user type in TargetProcess.The key difference here, is the Read Only user only has access to data, where they are given access to.Preferably, this becomes a User Type, making a touchless setup possible for...
2 months ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review

Maintain Identity of Stateful Workloads Running on Spot Instances

As a Turbonomic User, Cloud Engineer and FinOps Practitioner I want to maintain the identity of stateful workloads currently managed by Spot.io so that when a "recycle" occurs in Spot.io and the disk is detached and reattached to a new compute ins...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

User-defined CCSID handling of Z APM (Instana z/OS)

For Instana z/OS, when it tries to add the RFH V2 header for CICS-MQ-CICS or Outbound tracking - it would convert some data between IBM500 and the CCSID in the MQ header(s), by using z/OS Unicode conversion services to do the conversion. If the CC...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Planned for future release

Kubernetes CronJob Monitoring and Tracing

Ability to monitor CronJob as a separate service and enable tracing for CronJobs will help in monitoring the downstream calls just like other services. CronJobs can call other services using Rest APIs. It is helpful if we can monitor those Rest AP...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Tracing 8