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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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Easily identify nodes in a Kubernetes cluster (workers, infra, masters)

Easily identify in the UI the nodes in a Kubernetes cluster (workers, infrastructure and masters).

Turbonomic recommendations for backup servers

Telefónica has HP Apollo Backup servers (ProLiant XL420 Gen10) integrated with Veritas NetBackup software. The backup is something that fills up over time and there is often no good criterion for deleting old backups or reducing retentions for cer...

Add a new column with sharing URL inside downloaded csv file of Turbo recommendations

Requests to include a column that includes the sharing URL for each recommendation.
13 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Change units in downloaded csv file with recommendations

The units appear in KB and the client requests GB. It is a much more manageable and realistic unit given the current sizes.
13 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Submitted

Auto-detect and exclude Hosts dedicated for maintenance/operational vacancy

Telefónica intentionally has some empty hosts, without load, exclusively to move load there during update/maintenance/obsolescence tasks. It is not a fixed rule, but it is usually one free host for every 8 or 9 hosts. This Telefónica's policy is a...
13 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Submitted

Request the implementation of visibility for the AccountingOrigin value within Instana

We would like to request the ACE Instana sensor to collect the Accounting Origin and for it to be displayed with ACE message flow stats. We have multiple MLP implementations that share a single message flow. Currently, we populate the Accounting O...
19 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 3 Submitted

Cloudability - Usage Stats

As a Cloudability admin, I should be able to pull usage statistics directly to understand and improve tool adoption. This should include statistics like count of unique users over time, features used within the tool.
9 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

In the application traces(Analytics->calls in the UI) the query execution time from a DB2 is not getting represented correctly, for example when a query is waiting for a lock this time is not getting reported under query time instead it is getting reported under JVM time.

it was observed that the entire time(execution+lock) was distributed between the query execution and result fetch, so we need an implementation where we can see the query time and a child span for resultset showing the time taken in locking if any...
4 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

Support add operator custom-size entry to allow custom annotations to PVC

We faced a issue that cluster needs FSTrim to work properly. OpenShift Data Foundatin and IBM Storage Fusion allow PVC to be annotated with FSTrim parameters but PVC are controlled by IBM CloudPak for AIOps operator, leading any direct customizati...
4 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Is the data from "S3 Storage Lens" available in CLDY?

S3 Lens data is useful to optimise costs in S3.
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted