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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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Set workflows to run on all workers in a worker pool

It would be useful to be able to set a workflow to be executed on every worker in a worker pool, rather than round robin. This is useful for testing type scenarios when I'd want to run the same test from multiple endpoints and collate the results....
5 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Add costs estimation by Container Pod

Hi, I'm working with a customer with more than 1500 workloads and base on kubernetes. It would be nice to have the estimated cost by each pod inside a cluster, so they can track and sort by most expensive cluster or pod and execute actions based o...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Functionality already exists

Instana: Would like to see the Availability zone as part of the trace

Currently we are unable to filter using the availability zone in the Analytics>Applications/Calls tab. You can specify the availability zone in a Smart Alert, but when you try and analyze the issue you cannot filter on the Availability Zone.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Functionality already exists

Add support for MSSQL instances

Currently, any multi-tenant setup on SQL (aka SQL Instances) is not supported. The request is to add support - and the ideal solution would be to allow Turbo to enumerate all SQL instances via the SQL Server Browsing service.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Functionality already exists

Support kubeturbo communication flowing to a Secure Client

Kubeturbo communication need to be stablished directly to the SaaS Server, including On Prem Cloud Native clusters (in Hybrid environments). In a High secure environments with dozens (and even hundreds) of clusters, customers need to open firewall...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Functionality already exists

System Capacity filter

Previously I can setup filesystem capacity event alert with "entity.host.filesystems.fs.name" filter under scope. Unfortunately this filter has been obsoleted and Instana introduced NO alternative solution to this. Instana support advised to confi...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Custom scheduling of instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 7 Functionality already exists

Enhance Synthetic smart alert to support multiple tests failure to generate a single event

Enhance Synthetic smart alert to support multiple tests failure to generate a single event. Slack Thread : https://ibm-security.slack.com/archives/C03PE83TQ59/p1717529847084299
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Limit what files are copied per pod by instana-instrumentation-init

The typical duration of instana-instrumentation-init is 2 seconds. This becomes an issue during node consolidation and when pods are moved to a new node. I’ve analysed the reason for this slow performance, and it is likely due to the init containe...
11 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6 Functionality already exists

we need feature to select alerts and export them to excel file

When we have several alerts on the same device or location we generate a report/excel file with all the related alerts and attach it to the Remedy Incident. Right now we have to do it manually. So we need feature to select alerts and export them t...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Functionality already exists