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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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We want to make a group of groups. Currently not possible

There are multiple business cases. ONE: A group of all the groups of prod servers that have been rightsized. And having that one group - enables the Turbonomic Tech Champion to keep an eye on them for performance issues. TWO: Group of Application...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Integration with hashicorp Vault supported namespaces

A client uses namespaces in HashiCorp Vault, but namespaces are not supported for integration from the Instana agent, so the only option at the moment is to use the root in HashiCorp Vault which may result in a security observation as it would hav...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Allow resizing action of namespace quota

We, IBM CIO, set default namespace quotas in OpenShift clusters. However, some applications need to use more resources than the default resource quotas set. Either due to a technical reason or business criticality. Today, we need to contact SRE te...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

SLO window size increase

Currently windows size for SLOs is 4 weeks. Considering data retention is 13 months it would make sense to be able to select your window size to any specific size within that period. This would allow to check SLOs and error budgets evolutions over...
4 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Future consideration

In Turbonomic Segments view of Policies, allow sort/filter/group by Type (e.g. Host Merge, Storage Merge, Network Merge under Merges)

The one-layer depth to the Turbonomic Segments portion of policies makes for difficult searching and sorting. Adding additional filters at each of these pages would help reduce noise and improve ease of management. I have submitted similar ideas i...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Add COBOL tracing on distributed environments

The idea is to Add COBOL tracing on distributed(Linux/Windows) environments. Background: There are still many customers running critical COBOL applications, and monitoring these applications are vital. Currently, there are no Otel SDK/APIs for COB...
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Oracle RAC sensors to gather the number of active instances of RAC

Current Oracle RAC sensor does not collect the number of "active" instances in the cluster. It does collect the total number of instances as configuration information, but you cannot know how many of them is currently active. This is an idea to co...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Automated report from instana dashboards

We are trying to send an automated report from instana custom dashboard via email, but we don't see any options available in UI also don't see anything in the instana documentation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability Please help wit...
12 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Future consideration

Provide fixed relative positioning for vertices in the topology templates

It is essential to be able to provide the functionlaity in the AIOPs topology building templates to fix the positioning of the vertex and thier neighbouring vertex. The vertex when positioned via the drag-and-drop function during the template buil...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Add Project Setting to Enable/Disable Case-Sensitivity

As a TBMA, I would like the ability to disable case-sensitivity in CT. I often resort to forcing columns I use for lookups or data relationships to upper case to ensure they will work. However, I have never had a case where I wanted data to match ...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted