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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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Support for VMware vCenter V8 discovery

Support for the discovery of the VMware vCenter V8 is needed.
7 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Future consideration

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...
over 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...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Ability to copy the entirety of an SQL query identified as truncated in INSTANA

SQL queries that are too long appear truncated in the INSTANA traces. However, for the analysis of resource-intensive queries. it is often important to access the entire query to clearly identify it. In my case, the "where" clauses of the problema...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Hot-Plugging Memory and CPUs on Virtual Machines (AHV)

Currently a reboot is required on virtual machines running on AHV to hot add resources. Nutanix allows hot add capabilities for CPU and Memory without a reboot natively. Turbonomic should be able to leverage the API and do the same without requiri...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Planned for future release

Need periodic reports in different formats

Dear Colleagues, we have a constant demand from our customers regarding reporting capabilities. Please consider creating additional sharing option for custom dashboards. Something like periodic report, that generates a PDF (CSV, XLS, Plain text) f...
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

User-friendly message for unauthorized users

Today, when user is not authorized (i.e.: not part of any External Group in Turbo), Turbo displays a 500 server error: 500 Server Error: "{"type":500,"exception":"com.vmturbo.auth.api.authorization.AuthorizationException: Unable to authorize the u...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Simplified UI for Agent configuration

Many times Client find it difficult to edit configuration.yaml for agent configuration as this is huge file, indentation sensitive and not so user friendly. A more intuitive UI for making changes to agent configuration is requested through this idea.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

CPU scaling on vCPU not MHz

As I know Turbonomic is scaling vCPU based on the MHZ or GHz config of the underlying physical Host. The problem with this is that we have some virtual machine groups with „consistent resizing“ but Turbonomic has actions for one vm to increase vCP...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Exclude Local FileSystem from monitoring

Currently, there is only option to INCLUDE REMOTE filesystems to be monitored within Instana agent configuration file. Customer is looking for the option to EXCLUDE LOCAL filesystem from monitoring. They do have some filesystems which are nearly f...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Functionality already exists