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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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Date Range Toggle Month to Quarters in Cloud Total Cost

We often show our Cloud Total Cost reports to Finance and lead engineers throughout the year. We would like to have the option to toggle between either showing Months in the Date Range dropdown in CTC, or Quarters. This way we get the flexibility ...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Functionality already exists

Submit complex IBM ELM JVM Mbeans or string based Mbeans as events or logs to Instana

IBM Engineering lifecycle management platform (ELM or also known as Jazz platform) is a widely used Requirements management or Application lifecycle management platform in the industry. It is based on IBM Websphere application Server and the liber...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

Extending Instana JAVA-Sensor to collect additional metrics from IBM ELM JVM's

IBM Engineering lifecycle management platform (ELM or also known as Jazz platform) is a widely used Requirements management or Application lifecycle management platform in the industry. It is based on IBM Websphere application Server and the liber...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

Add support for IBM Cloud

A certain customer in Japan has finished Turbonomic's PoC and they found some Turbonomic's issues. I would like to describe one of them here. Turbonomic doesn't support IBM Cloud. The customer hope Turbonomic will support IBM Cloud. They ask us fo...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Not under consideration

Turbonomic support for Red Hat Virtualization (RHV), KVM and OCPV

The current supported hypervisors targets are vCenter, PowerVM and Hyper-V, but not RHV, KVM and OCPV.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Planned for future release

User-friendly way of managing SNMP MIBs and traps for alerting/eventing

Currently, in order to manage SNMP MIBs and traps for alerting, you must create a rules file that will map the OIDs and Varbinds of the trap, as defined in the vendor's MIB, to the event schema. We do offer some tooling that will take a vendor MIB...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Create event on CPU/Memory usage (K8S)

Hi, We want to configure an Instana event on Kubernetes. This event should warn us when the used memory or cpu is at a certain level on the deployment. Currenly it is not possible to create an event on this. Can you create this possibility? Thanks...
9 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

Automate the currency change (probe property) fetched from the Azure price sheet

Hi team, My customer would like to change the currency that is fetched from the Azure price sheet. They are using Turbo SaaS, and now it's required to do it manually through a request.Now, Turbo UI is confuse, since lets you to change the currency...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Future consideration

Import Data Mapping from Turbonomic ontology

Turbonomic uses the data it has access to in order to create a mapping of which resources belong to which applications. Customer would like to be able to reuse this classification to map the cost data to match the Turbonomic categorization.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

VVOL volumes are not providing data to Turbonomic. So the data cannot be stitched.

A customer with a vcenter target utilizing Pure Storage is missing storage capacity and usage information (storage access IOPS / latency) in Turbo for some VMs, but are getting those metrics for other VMs discovered from the same vCenter target , ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Under review