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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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Keep billing data statistics based on the Data Retention policy (currently, it can only display up to 30 days at maximum)

Currently, Cost Breakdown Charts can display data from the last 7 or 30 dayshttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/tarm/8.11.0?topic=types-cost-breakdown-charts On the other hand, according to the Data Retention Policy as whole turbonomic, it is possible to ...

More Elastic Scaling: Remove hardcoded restrictions on maximum observation period

For those customers that want to unleash Turbonomic to unlock elasticity in the cloud, we use the percentile and observation settings to help influence Turbo's decision making. However, it appears there are hardcoded limits to the minimum/maximum ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Planned for future release

Depict AWS Savings Plan Data for EC2

We need Turbonomic to account for existing EC2 Savings Plans when making recommendations to ensure maximum utilization of these Savings Plans.
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Planned for future release

add a security option to manage host for x-agent or pool

Hello, Security ask us to separate each application from one to another. That means that an admin A can create job on server x but it cannot create job for a server y under responsability of admin B Currently we used x-agent to manage workstation ...
9 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

At this time instana agent can not collect metrics from Postgresql Patroni cluster. I think this is good idea for implementation.

Patroni is an open-source tool designed for managing PostgreSQL high-availability (HA) clusters. It ensures that the database is always available by orchestrating failovers and managing replication among the nodes. To maintain a robust and reliabl...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Kafka Cluster Consumer Group Metrics at the Partition Level

I would like to monitor Kafka consumer group metrics such as current offset, log end offset, lag, throughput, etc., at the partition level. This would be similar to the metrics provided by the kafka-consumer-groups.sh CLI tool: ▶ bin/kafka-consume...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

ORACLE TARGET SUPPORT

CLIENT: "I’d like the Oracle targets to be enhanced so a target can connect to multiple servers like the SQL targets can"
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Planned for future release

Add support for HPE 3Par successor HPE Primera

Add support for HPE 3Par successor HPE Primera, as this is the new storage from HPE and companies are moving away from 3Par to Primera now.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

Clearly identify Cloud vs On-prem specific policy settings to avoid customer confusion

Clearly identify Cloud vs On-prem specific policy settings Turbonomic is showing both cloud and on-prem policy settings when cloud VMs settings are ignored (cloud VMs settings should not appear to avoid customer confusion) For customers that have ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Allow Instana to perform deep monitoring of OpenShift

We recently had an issue in our OpenShift cluster where we were unable to authenticate against our AD server because the certificates on the AD server had expired. I would have expected that Instana was able to monitor OpenShift and alert us to th...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration