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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.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Alert setup on Kubernetes Horizontal pod autoscaling nearing max pods capacity

Ability to setup alert on Kubernetes Horizontal pod autoscaling nearing max pods capacity as this requirement will help monitoring team to take action before Horizontal pod autoscaling reach its max capacity
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 3

Add support in REST API to set Dynamic agent offline or online.

Add support in REST API to set Dynamic agent offline or online.API should have same functionality as resource.sh. Similiar command to take DA offline (-setOffline) or online (-setOnline)./tws*****/ibm/TWA/TDWB/bin/resource.sh -usr TWS_ID -pwd xxxx...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Ability to share reports to user in Saved state (Send Email Functionality)

User applies certain filters in the report , wants to share it with a colleague to view similar data . Shares the saved report using Send email functionality. However, when the colleague opens the shared link , the saved filters remain for a momen...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Have standard time selection for Resource inventory

To be able to select last month, last 30 days, last 7 days, etc. for resource Inventory
2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Allow creation of a new custom report collection in Bill of IT

For  Bill of IT module, we are required to create a new report collection for saving and efficiency related custom report and keep them in a single collection for customers. We dont want to use Custom Bill of IT reports collection  for t...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 1 Planned for future release

instana monitor confluent kafka group lag

instana can not monitor confluent kafka group lag, confluent kafka protocol is sasl_ssl, not defalut plain protocol
7 months ago in Instana / Java 2 Future consideration

expanded options for aggressiveness, rate of resize and observation period

Currently, Virtual machine aggressiveness, rate of resize, and observation period are set for all types of actions CPU, Memory, Up, and Down. There is no way to have these configured differently for each type of action. So at the moment, VM will s...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

LDAP integration - automatic retrieve list of users and groups

It would be a useful feature that Instana, after the integration with LDAP, would automatically retrieve all users and groups from the LDAP according to the filter given in the LDAP configuration. This way administration of new users would be m...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 5 Functionality already exists

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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Future consideration