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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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Action Center Proof-UI: Better explaining reasons for Turbonomic's resource decisions, especially cluster scaling

If Turbonomic generates host provision actions the risk listed in the pending actions widget or in the action center is e.g. named "Clone <host name> on cloned ...". This is not the risk why Turbonomic has decided for a cluster scaling. The ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Enable users to be configured with a "Read Only" Role

With the extension of capabilities in AIOps to include a more "business" concepts such as "Incidents" there are a lot more users who would benefit from having a realtime view. This will enable the customer to extend the visibility of business impa...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Allow to be build a policy to generate VM delete action for VM being idle for a defined number of days or VM delete actions or at least a list of VMs probably no longer used (minimal CPU usage, no net

Based on Idea TURBO-I-450 (measure and display days a VM is being idle) please allow to set a policy to generate delete actions for VMs being idle for x days. In addition to that, allow to set a policy as it is available with all the cloud optimiz...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solutio...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Support for GraalVM

We have plans to use GraalVM https://www.graalvm.org/ for some of our microservices. Especially for cloud native applications GraalVM is a very interesting project. Spring Boot is working on supporting GraalVM with spring-native project: https://g...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Planned for future release

Authentication with OMNIbus jconnect only supports passwords up to 30 characters

Customer is using the ObjectServer for authentication of users logging into WebGUI/DASH. The password for the users is coming over an LDAP-integration of the ObjectServer. For users that do not have OMNIbus client libraries and due to password siz...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Extend time window to more than 120 min

Hello, Currently, when creating an event with built-in host metrics, the time window is limited to 120 min We received the following request, which is not currently possible with this limitation : - trigger an alert when a filesystem is > 70% f...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Build a dedicated topology observer for Solarwinds

Some customers of us (like ENI, ENEL, ...) have Solarwinds as network management tool and it would fine having the related observer to import the topology from it into the WAIOps platform they have installed like we do for other similar tools from...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

DB and K8 Certificate Monitoring for OVA Deployments - on-Premise

Insight into when DB is filling and when K8 Certificates Expire. Today there are no warnings when this happens
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Keep billing data statistics based on the Data Retention policy (currently, it can only display up to 30 days at maximum)

Currently, Cost Breakdown Charts can display data from the last 7 or 30 dayshttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/tarm/8.11.0?topic=types-cost-breakdown-charts On the other hand, according to the Data Retention Policy as whole turbonomic, it is possible to ...