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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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View and download the SUM/AVG of Pod's CPU/Memory usage based on K8s Namespace

The customer is checking the usage by Kubernetes namespace using "kubectl top pod -n namespace" and said that this function is essential. And they want to download the result of the command as an excel file, etc. They request that the following fu...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Support for .Net from datadog

Ability to have application context for .Net applications
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Planned for future release

Plan migration of cloud workloads back to on-premise datacenter.

Turbonomic allows us to plan a move of on-prem workloads to cloud (Azure), but we want the ability to plan moves of cloud workloads back on-prem. We are maintaining on-prem resources to allow for bringing our servers home, but need to make sure th...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration

Host Agent to run without sudoers permission

We've gotten this request from a few customers that don't want processes running as root. The request is to provide support for the Host Agent to run as non-root user. The customer understands that they would be giving up some of the discovery cap...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

Update the email address from stan@instana to instana@instana.com

The email stan@instana.com is not service account and conflict with a user named Stan in the organization.
5 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Needs more information

Need “Overwrite” capability in the Custom Calendar feature in Time Settings

Time Settings -> Custom Calendar feature only has “Append” option available to update dates.If we have to change the custom calendar dates(that we have already included in the file and checked in), we always have to rollback several days/months...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

DB and K8 Certificate Monitoring for OVA Deployments - on-Premise

Insight into when DB is filling and when K8 Certificates Expire. Today there are no warnings when this happens
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

We are requesting that the DWC time field support the more conventional 12:00 - 12:59 AM/PM and/or 24 hour clock value.

An inconsistency was discovered in the DWC Workload Designer that impacts time fields, such as Earliest Start, Latest Start, Deadline, etc. We are unable to specify any value between 12:01 and 12:59, whether AM or PM. Specifying 12:00 is allowed. ...
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Application Topology Definition - Add support for missing entity types, e.g. Azure App Services entities

Application topology Definition currently only support the following entity types: Business Application Service Application Component Namespace Virtual Machine Workload Controller Database Database Server Other entity types such as App Component S...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Planned for future release

Optimize logs trace on IWS to keep track of actions by LDAP user

Actually the IWS if we make a connection to authenticate users by ldap, (MS Active Directory) on norma audit logs files (database / plan) all actions like create, delete, update any scheduling object, are keeping with twsusr owner and not the pers...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration