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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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Record and preserve all data points in the Actions Executed log

Looking at the Executed Actions - Succeeded widget on the Action Impact & Savings dashboard, download the report. The issue is that in auditing groups of historical actions, it appears some of them are missing the volume and/or target IDs that...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Under review

Need a platform health status page so SaaS customers can check to see if there are known issues before logging support requests

Most of the SaaS based products we work with have a Health Status page that lists the product's main features and their current operational status. This helps in the troubleshooting steps to know if we are having an issue or if the platform is hav...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Create a Favorites area on the Main/Left menu (or Favourites for our funny talking friends)

With dozen of different IT teams supporting hundreds of cloud accounts, we are approaching multiple thousands of resource groups in Turbonomic. Most of the DevOps teams are only concerned about a few dozen of those groups that their team specifica...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Allow Tag Names and Values to be searched by typing rather than death scrolling

When creating a group using Tag filters, there is no easy way to find the tag value you are looking for without scrolling through hundreds of rows, for every single tag (usually there are several needed for a single group) on every group for every...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Sort and Group Policy List

When viewing any particular entity or scope, the list of policies on the Policy tab is a randomly sorted randomly named list. Since a majority of these policies are automatically being generated by Turbonomic based on cloud provider constraints, i...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Planned for future release

Dark mode in target process

Would be nice to at least have the option for a dark mode in target process to reduce eye strain. Thank you
4 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

Authentication mechanism used for the AWS Observer

One of our customer has a security policy in place, that enforces the following mechanism to be used when accessing AWS: The mechanism is to assume an IAM role in the AWS account using the 'sts:AssumeRoleWithSAML' AWS API call. This returns a set ...
8 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Planned for future release

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

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