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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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Having real names against usernames

Minor thing .. when creating a user on the appliance, any chance extra fields for that users real name, department and contact details ?
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Run FlightRadar and Instana Agent together

Unfortunately it is not possible to run FlightRadar and Instana together. This has been confirmed with our Engineering Team.Need a supported way to solve this issue , we already know about the incompatible agent workaround. To resolve the issue, r...
9 months ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Exclude target category that has no associated rows from the Target Type Filter

In Target Configuration page, it seems we have all target categories included in the target type filter. For Azure, the target type shall be Azure Service Principal, or Azure Subscription. So when selecting Azure, there is no result returned. Disc...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic - Add support for Postgres databases (via APM targets, maybe as direct target)

Postgres is the no. 4 in the database market following Oracle, MySQL and MSSQL and one of the fasted growing db engines Turbonomic currently does not support Postgres yet neither as target nor via APM tools. Please add support for Postgres databas...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Future consideration

Azure Savings Plan commitment planning

I would like to have the ability to create plans for Azure Savings Plan commitments based on my current workloads not covered by reserved instances that are running hourly pay go rates.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Not under consideration

"Entity Information" widget should be sorted alphabetically

This widget has grown a lot over the years and for some objects now runs off the screen. As it does not seem to be sorted alphabetically, it can be difficult to navigate and does not provide a good user experience
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Planned for future release

Allow temporary group creation within Plan function of the tool

Many times for running plans, I have to create a VM group here and a host group there. They all end up sitting in the environment indefinitely until I explicitly look for them for cleaning (being able to look for them by "Last Used" or "Last Updat...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 1 Future consideration

Retention of JVM data after change in PID/ID

When an Application release, update/change, or outage occurs, all JVM data for the process ID running prior is lost in Instana. This has been confirmed as correct functionality within Instana through ticket "TS013919515" "It is expected behaviour ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 2 Planned for future release

Add list of groups to bottom of Details page

When viewing a virtual machine or database server the details page has a list of policies at the bottom of it so you can see what's applicable. It would be handy to also see a list of group memberships since all policies are tied to a group and it...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Add list of Policies to bottom of Volume details page for consistency

When viewing a virtual machine or database server the details page has a list of policies at the bottom of it, so you can see what's applicable. It would be handy to also see this list on volumes.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration