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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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4 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

Shadows jobs' folders

When the name of jobstream definition contains a folder in workstation name or jobstream name, the associated shadow job goes into error state. Could you add these folders, please?
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Filter/sort user-created groups by creator and create date

Groups can get unmanageable very quickly. Allowing users to be able to see the following fields would be incredibly helpful for maintenance and operations: Creator Created date Last modified Last modified by Please also allow sorting and filtratio...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Planned for future release

Remove the first 3 characters currently rendered to denote the group in 'scope-based' searching

When clicking the first time on "scope-based" and enable the second sorting on "temporal" the alarms with temporal grouping are not sorted at all (even when hitting it multiple times). The Development Team has indicated there's a plan for a tweak ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support the use of kubernetes ServiceAccounts for AWS authorization

Currently the AWS agent can only be deployed on EC2 or ECS. Since we moved to EKS we would like to run the AWS agent inside EKS but without passing credentials to the serivce. The AWS way of doing this would be to assign an IAM role to the Service...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Show alerts using Mobile App

Options to view Instana Alerts using a Mobile App
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Support for Azure SQL reserved capacity

Product doesn't currently support Azure SQL (PaaS) reserved capacity. This functionality is similar conceptually to Reserved Instances for VMs; however, it applies to SQL. Impact: Turbonomic will potentially create pending actions to scale a SQL d...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Import DRS Virtual Machine Options settings

Today, Turbo imports DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules. These rules help customers keep VMs together, apart, or only on certain hosts. Some customers (Facebook, NBC) use DRS's Virtual Machine Options to override DRS automation. This settings ar...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Planned for future release

URLs for direct access to Action Center & Action Center Details

Desired customer use case: Customer is leveraging webhooks to send pending Turbo actions directly to end-users. They want a way to expose a link that takes the user directly to the Action Center Details view for a given entity/action. Today, we ca...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Smart Alerts for Infrastructure and Kubernetes.

I can configure the smart alerts on the Application. I cannot however configure the smart alert on the Infrastructure components. How can I achieve it? If it's not possible I would like to request this as a feature since it is quite a helpful feat...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2