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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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[OAPI] Split the resource grouping for operator easy access

IBM support Case # TS006039944
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Implement Synthetic Monitoring function in Docker (self-hosted) version

Customer is considering using Docker version in DMZ for open internet applications. Main Instana will be migrated into OCP version.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Not under consideration

Improve stitching where multiple services are backed by the same workload

Turbo should be able to handle multiple services that are front-ending the same workload PM update: Will convert this to an improvement on how Turbonomic stitches Services to Containerized Workload to be handled under 2 master epics: Multiple Serv...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Not under consideration

Getting container IP from extractor

Netskope would like the ability to get container IP from the extractor. PM comment: this is not functionality related to Turbonomic, rather an issue related to choice of or configuration of the Prometheus exporter used.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Not under consideration

Working with Prometheus in container environment

Today we don’t manage exporter, and metric has to be in Turbo namespace, but Netskope would like it to be available in all namespaces.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 3 Not under consideration

Prod: change in autotrace webhook version needs application to clean and redeploy(prod blocked)

The autotrace mutating webhook is only called when there is a redeployment.We would need to rewrite this into an operator to gain more control and actually observe the state to trigger a redeployment. This is a production blocker as every-time we ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Cloud Automation Manager support of X.509 client certificate for REST hooks in the service composer

Currently ICAM service composer REST hooks supports basic authentication with login and password. For some clients such as banks this is basic authentication method is not allowed anymore for machine to machine communication. Instead, SSO based me...
about 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Add support for INP

Currently you support data on other CWV, when will you be adding INP?
about 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

Have DWC role "API USER" control who can access a RESTAPI that runs against a zWS controller

Currently giving a userid the API USER role does not give the user access to run RESTAPI, neither does a user need to have the RESTAPI role so that they can run a RESTAPI against a zWS controller. All that is needed is the RACF userid and password...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Cloud scaling actions in AWS should also include instance-level network performance metrics to assure performance after being executed

The following link (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/amazon-ec2-instance-level-network-performance-metrics-uncover-new-insights/) was provided by our cloud ops team when discussions were held regarding the validity of T...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration