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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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Clearly indicate policy hierarchy in the UI

As a user I would like the ability to understand the hierarchy overrides for policy settings, so I can have accurate expectations about the outcome of applying a policy.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Automatic Forecast Update for New Resource Internal Labor Rates

Once an update is made to the internal labor resource rates for new year, would like ITP to recognize the new rate once the new year is in effect without the user having to do a manual update 
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Build a dedicated topology observer for Solarwinds

Some customers of us (like ENI, ENEL, ...) have Solarwinds as network management tool and it would fine having the related observer to import the topology from it into the WAIOps platform they have installed like we do for other similar tools from...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

VM Family upgrade to newer version even in case of no underutilization

We were looking if Turbo can provide any recommendation of VM Family upgrade even if there was no underutilization. For e.g when we compared the F series VM family, we could see the V2 version providing faster and cheaper VM of the same core. Whil...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

See VM's Group Membership

I’d like to see what Turbo groups a server belongs to when scoped to that server.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Remove requirement to set Automation level on every Volume policy

Currently, with VM policies, you can add or ignore every variable in the policy menu. By this i mean that i can have a policy blocking instance types, and i don't have to also select Manual or Automatic. I can leave that section blank and allow ot...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Future consideration

Uninstalling agent should remove all files and libraries

When uninstalling the Instana agent customer expect that everything related to the Instana agent should get removed. This is not the case for PHP monitoring. After you uninstall the agent there is still Instana files outside the agent folder that ...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Azure extension install & update

The only way to install and update the Instana Azure extension is my manuell clicking in the Azure webUI. This is not a scalable solution if you have hundreds of App Services. There should be a way to install och update the Instana Azure extension...
12 months ago in Instana / .NET 3 Planned for future release

List of events that triggered alerts

It would be beneficial to be able to retrieve a list of all events that have triggered alerts within a specified time frame. Currently, there is no direct way to filter alerts based on which ones were triggered by what events. Adding this fe...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Not under consideration

Concurrent Sessions Enabled

Background: Concurrent session enabled refers to a feature or setting within an application or system that allows a user to be logged in and active from multiple devices or locations simultaneously. In other words, a user can have multiple concurr...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration