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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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Add quota management information and recommendations - including reductions

Quota management and related recommendations, which is very important to the client since they determine the built capacity, and they see potential there to manage inefficiencies that the tool currently couldn't exploit. Please consider the possib...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Instana support local monitoring For IBM DataPower Physical Appliance

Currently, Instana’s support for DataPower is limited to remote monitoring options for the DataPower Physical Appliance. However, our client is requesting local monitoring capabilities on the appliance itself. Since DataPower operates as a black b...
23 days ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ 0 Submitted

Utilise K8s secrets for InstanaAgent configuration

We are currently using the Instana Agent operator in Red Hat Openshift, and need to configure the Instana Agents. There are several places where use of secrets are in plaintext - this is problematic as we use gitops to manage the configuration of ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

GitOps integration: support for bitbucket+ArgoCD

We are starting a Turbonomic deployment in Intesa Sanpaolo; they asked for integration with their GitOps process to apply changes in RHOCP clusters; Turbonomic actions related to RHOCP target should be applied to their bitbucket repository instead...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Future consideration

Provide public API to update Rightsizing ROI tickets or add comments

One of my customer in inquiring if we can enable or consider enabling write access for cloudability API V3. When it comes to rightsizing ROI data, the cloudability API V3 is read only, which is preventing them from adding comments or updating entt...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
about 2 months ago in Instana 0 Submitted

On dashboard widgets created with a grouping, it would be useful to be able to deselect all categories rather than only being able to deselect 1 at a time.

On dashboard widgets created with a grouping, it would be useful to be able to deselect all categories rather than only being able to deselect 1 at a time. For widgets that only have 3 or 4 categories the current functionality works fine but if th...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Customers need Effective Rightsizing Cost Metric for both 10 OR 30 days in ABI

So that customers can see in ABI reports the same output as rightsizing UI and utilise the reporting more effectively.
15 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Request for HTTP Communication Support in Instana SaaS

Some customers only allow HTTP communication to monitor all outbound traffic from their environment. Currently, on-premises deployments support both HTTP and HTTPS configurations, but SaaS deployments only allow communication over HTTPS. We kindly...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Under review

Need ability to customize the temp directory used by ITM product

Currently as required by some of the OS hardening best practices, the native /tmp partition of the OS is required to me mounted as 'NOEXEC' . With this set in place, tacmd update Agent commands, nor installs work on a clean system. It is not possi...
24 days ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Under review