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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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kubeturbo CLI support

To make Turbonomic utilization in a high rates, specially by developers and operators, we should have a kubeturbo CLI, so at the k8s terminal we can get pending actions that affect performance or indicate savings, like: kubeturbo get action -perfo...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Not under consideration

Document the recommended number of events and smart alerts the SaaS by default can support

The information would be useful when development of a solution in which is a replacement of an existing APM. The primary benefit would be to not pick a path only to find out after a large time investment that that option is not able to support the...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under 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...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Integration to load testing tools like Radview WebLOAD

We see some companies use load testing tools that integrate with our competitors such as Dynatrace. An example is WebLOAD from Radview. Can we provide an integration to load testing tools? Its a common problem when we install instana at a POC that...
8 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

The Cost Savings Per Month field which is available in downloads - add it to the API

Large customers use the API to blend this data with Portfolio Management Data - the cost savings is a KEY prioritization parameter to get actions taken.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Allow for file encryption keys to be provided by the customer and utilized in encryption of data at rest in the platform

Allow for customers of Turbonomic / ParkMyCloud to encrypt their data at rest in the platform by exposing an Azure KeyVault that Turbo can reach out to and connect/pull down rotating encryption keys. This allows the customer to maintain control of...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 2 Not under consideration

Instana events do not support adding more than five metric conditions.

Some of the situations in my customers data is comprised of more than five conditions that Instana do not support today.I am working on ITM2Instana modernisation offering and we need to transform customer's ITM data into Instana e-g, situation (ev...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert / MQ 0 Not under consideration

Add "180 /365 days" and/or "any number of days" for Max Observation Period

Requests:.1.Add 180 days and 365 days to max observation period2.Make it possible to set any number of days for max observation period (e.g. 14 days, 60 days, etc.) Background:.Japanese customers often have stable system environments and request l...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Modify Turbonomic recommendations / actions before I approve them

When I negotiate a lesser reduction with an App owner, I would like to modify Turbo’s recommendation and still have Turbo perform the action. Having Turbonomic perform the action is advantageous because Turbo can then report that the action was ta...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Not under consideration

Enable to exclude entities from built-in events by DFQ (Dynamic Focus Query)

Users cannot configure any conditions of built-in events. However in some cases, built-in event could be opened even though it is not harmful. Users would be happy if you can exclude entities from built-in events by using (single or sometimes mult...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration