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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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Option to select Effective costs in the RightSizing Explorer page

The rest of the pages have the option to show effective costs but not the landing page which only shows on-demand
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard

Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard, From the attached screenshot, you can observe it does not have metric for memory and cpu usage of a deployment, service, daemonset. Please add it to all avai...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

Direct Access to a Complete List of Successful and Failed Actions

To enhance transparency and accountability, Turbonomic should implement a comprehensive audit trail capturing all actions (including successful and failed attempts) and configuration changes within the platform. This will enable clients to easily ...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Support for IBM DataStage

Hi team, While searching Instana documentation I couldn't find IBM DataStage, this means is not supported and we need to be able to monitor this technology: https://www.ibm.com/products/datastage Can we add support for it like other IBM products? ...
12 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 1 Future consideration

Record and preserve all data points in the Actions Executed log

Looking at the Executed Actions - Succeeded widget on the Action Impact & Savings dashboard, download the report. The issue is that in auditing groups of historical actions, it appears some of them are missing the volume and/or target IDs that...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Under review

Need a platform health status page so SaaS customers can check to see if there are known issues before logging support requests

Most of the SaaS based products we work with have a Health Status page that lists the product's main features and their current operational status. This helps in the troubleshooting steps to know if we are having an issue or if the platform is hav...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Create a Favorites area on the Main/Left menu (or Favourites for our funny talking friends)

With dozen of different IT teams supporting hundreds of cloud accounts, we are approaching multiple thousands of resource groups in Turbonomic. Most of the DevOps teams are only concerned about a few dozen of those groups that their team specifica...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Allow Tag Names and Values to be searched by typing rather than death scrolling

When creating a group using Tag filters, there is no easy way to find the tag value you are looking for without scrolling through hundreds of rows, for every single tag (usually there are several needed for a single group) on every group for every...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Sort and Group Policy List

When viewing any particular entity or scope, the list of policies on the Policy tab is a randomly sorted randomly named list. Since a majority of these policies are automatically being generated by Turbonomic based on cloud provider constraints, i...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Planned for future release

Datalink: "Time Period" selection should be available in the front page

There are connectors which need to run monthly for multiple months due to changes in the previous periods. In order to load this in Apptio we need to either adjust manually each time the name of the file (with the month and year) or to go inside e...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration