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Improve the executed actions widget

The user experience of executed actions widget currently is poor. It should be completely revamped. Some ideas are: 1) Include the policy name which caused the action to be executed automatically. Right now it just says system. 2) When an action f...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Support MSSQL Local Windows Authentication with FQDN-based Certificates

Description: Today the Instana MSSQL sensor in local mode with Windows Authentication validates the server certificate against the machine’s hostname. This fails in environments where SQL Server is configured to issue certificates that contain onl...
4 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Allow run cycles to schedule by weekday offsets

Currently monthly run cycles can be scheduled for "last day", "2nd to last day", etc. as well as "first day", "second day" and so forth. We have a requirement to run on the last 3 weekdays and the first 4 weekdays of a month. We're currently manag...
4 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Git proxy functionality on backend for agents in DMZs

Hi, When we install agents in production they are not allowed to connect to the internal Github to receive their configuration. Gitops is only possible if the requests could be routed through the backend. Any change in production also needs a long...
4 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Event closing action in automation

Hi, Currently there is no closing action which fires when an event is closed. We need this to tell the central event management console that an issue is resolved. It will nag the resonsible team until a closing event is received.
4 days ago in Instana / Automation 0 Planned for future release

Provide option to suppress “Unavailable billing data” pop up after it has been viewed

When a user navigates into Scale -> Virtual Machines of the Action Center, a yellow pop up appears that says "Unavailable Billing Data". It is a fairly large pop up in the upper right that almost completely blocks the "On-demand" and "Effective...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Submitted

Zero-code discovery and instrumentation support for C++ applications in Instana

Description Currently, Instana does not support automatic discovery and instrumentation of applications written in C++ The agent is unable to detect and provide code-level tracing or service-level visibility for C++ processes. For organizations ru...
7 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Ability to specify component level PVC starting capacity for all supported stateful components (that require a PVC).

Multiple reasons, primarily though, improved install experience in an automated flow, and also in cases of public cloud deployments where configuring storage class IOPS and throughput settings for AIOps means enforcing a minimum volume capacity, e...
25 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Support the ability for an Operations Engineer / SRE to set VolumeAttributesClassName on PVCs and ensure the AIOps operators do not reset or override those settings.

This is important in Cloud storage environments, e.g. AWS, to be able to cost-effectively set and tune IOPS and throughput settings to meet AIOps component requirements and in a way that is supported by cloud provider storage solutions. Without th...
25 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Turbonomic Parking Schedules - missing time zone offset

Can the time zone in turbonomic parking schedules also show the law text difference, or offset, of the local time from UTC. This is currently displayed in PMC and administrators use this infomation to accurately set schedules to meet strict busine...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration