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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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Enable Redis monitoring with certificates for Instana

Instana's current monitoring config the Redis instance does not use credentials to ensure monitor & retrieve data security, which means it does not support certificates. The lack of certificates support may become a shortcoming in future secur...
9 months ago in Instana / Automation 4 Delivered

RightSize vCPU and vMem at the Same Time

For on-prem VMs, I’d like Turbo to be able to RightSize a VM’s vMem and vCPU at the same time instead of requiring a reboot for each action - which further requires 2 separate outage windows because the recommendations go away for ~4 hours when a ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 4 Delivered

Cancel a running data validation report

When a data validation report is executed, there is no option to either pause or cancel it. There have been times when a validation querying large set of data was kicked off unintentionally, and it takes more than 24 hours to complete. We are aski...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Delivered

[Turbonomics] - Chef Automate

As a part of using RNA with Turbonomics, we would like to integrate with Chef as a part of the process. https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/ OpenAPI Spec: https://docs.chef.io/automate-api-docs/all-apis.swagger.json
10 months ago in Concert Workflows 0 Delivered

ITP - Contracts tab - Extension adjustment is only calculated once even for multi-year contracts

Extension adjustment for contracts is only calculated once. So if the original price is 100 euros and extension is +3% it will be 103 euros for all the following years instead of compounding annually.There needs to be an ability to compound the in...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

Turbonomic must provide the consistent logic as key summary(text explanation) to Admins for the recommendation action.

The image of "Turbonomic recommendation action" as attached is just an example. Turbonomic is recommending that the current AWS EC2 VM be changed from A type to B type for better resource utilization. However, we can not know why the recommendatio...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 6 Delivered

Support for Spring Boot 3.x

We currently support Spring Boot versions 1.x and 2.x Spring Boot 3.0 is now available, and we need to have official support for it as customers begin to upgrade.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 7 Delivered

Include time range in exported dashboard

When exporting Dashbaords (ie/ PDF) time range seclected is not included. Thefore if ther is no time series then we have no clue on what is the time range of the shown metrics
6 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Delivered

Allow to delete wasted files from Turbonomic UI

Turbonomic recommends actions to delete wasted storage files on datastores. I want the ability to manually accept these and have the files be deleted on the vCenter datastore.

Enhance Google Cloud Storage (GCS) Integration Plugin to Support Uploading Files into Specific Bucket Folders

Currently, the Google Cloud Storage integration plugin (version 10.2.0.04) successfully uploads files directly to the root level of a specified GCS bucket. However, it lacks the capability to upload files into a specific folder (or prefix/subdirec...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered