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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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Postgress database Support for Turbonomic

Postgress database Support for Turbonomic
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Future consideration

Custom Event multiple conditions

This is a follow up to Aha Idea 729 which requested multiple conditions on a custom event. This is now available. However, it does not address our Use Cases, primarily as ita) It only allows multiple conditions on a single Entity typeb) only allow...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Provide a warning when internal certificates are about to expire

Rather than being surprised when internal certificates have expired when on the CLI (which is rare and usually only when doing upgrades), gives us a heads up in the UI.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Planned for future release

Export Config Data to CSV/XML Format As Well

Today, Instana API calls like ../api/events/settings/event-specifications/custom return data in JSON format only. Going forward potential enhancement options: 1) The U/I provides a way to export this sort of config data and allows it to be ex...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Ability to monitor IBM Cloud MySQL DBaaS

We're currently missing the ability to monitor MySQL DBaaS hosted by IBM Cloud in depth. Maybe it's possible to task an agent to connect to a remote MySQL database using a agent running somewhere else. We'd like to get some performance stats, open...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Not under consideration

instana to support monitoring of Axway and Solace

We are positioning Instana for their MQ, ACE, and Datapower, and in progress to work with them on POC, they requested Instana support for Solace and Axway.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

AWS VPC Flow Logs Collector

Customer have application running in AWS Cloud and would like to have visibility of all traffic within VPC of all servers including Kubernetes cluster
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Cloud 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic should interact with OpenShift API for delete actions.

Turbonomic should interact with the OpenShift API for delete actions on volumes. This will allow the cluster to clean up necessary objects like the PV and PVC configurations while deleting the backend volume. This would also solve PaaS specific is...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

Allow a user to set min/max number of nodes per any node pool in k8s

Long term: have a definition of a machineset/node group/node pool configuration that a user can define min/max number in terms of action generation and execution - A MachineSet (or any Node Group) could have a policy to control horizontal scaling ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Planned for future release

Allow a method to report on cost savings (lost/hidden) by policy

Allow a way to look at actions that would be generated by policy but that are excluded. Example: If I create a policy to generate no actions on a specific subscription, I would like to be able to see what the "potential" savings are that are hidde...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration