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Export Group and policy settings inside the UI to make it an easy way for the customer to export either 1or all group and policy settings.

Export Group and policy settings inside the UI Use cases: Customers with single instances but no official backup instance Customers with a single Turbo instance whose recovery method may be to rely on a snapshot or network backups. If those are no...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Categorization of recommendations based on Cloud Provider

If we look at any recommendations, the categorization based on cloud provider is present only if the recommendations are of more than one cloud provider. From the image uploaded, we have cloud provider categorization for Azure and GCP as we have d...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Smart Alert should not be closed after 03 hours if still true.

Scenario:We are monitoring an endpont that should raise an alert if no calls received during 10 minutes.The problem is that the Smart Alert is being closed after 3 hours as we learned from Instana support as hard coded "give up" time even though t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 4 Not under consideration

Context help on VM Policy Settings would really help customer understanding, and reduce calls to support.

I had to explain Memory Increase recommendations in detail last week - and a lot of the confusion was a lack of understanding of the scaling constraints. It would have been really helpful to drive home concepts with context help. Either the letter...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Not under consideration

automated & time-bound exclusion of certain VMs from downsizing due to CTO mandate

Customer story. The CTO mandates certain VMs are excluded for a certain time from the standard downsizing policies which run at each month end. Current process is a bore - manually pulling these machines into a RECOMMEND ONLY OVERRIDE group (leavi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Making it easy to identify SqlInjection

For HTTP calls performed by GET, when a SqlInjection or other types of intrussions, one of the parameters in the query string contains the atack command (SQL or OS). In the application perspective, it is possible to filter by the partial content ...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Set Action Concurrency per Policy

Customer is using Turbo to migrate VMs from one storage cluster to another. They want to set action concurrency via the UI for the automation policy without impacting the global concurrency settings. For their use case, they wanted to always see 5...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Not under consideration

Ability to freeze generated actions for a specific group

I would like the ability to freeze the generated actions for a specific group so that when we notify resources owners of the action a week prior, we take that specific action or none at all on their resource. For example: We sent out notifications...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 Not under consideration

Kubernetes Migrate Workload plan improvements: Cost

Turbonomic planning on kubernetes allows us to simulate scenarios to migrate workloads to different clusters to simulate how workloads could be supported on different node sizes. This is a workaround to having Turbo recommend what vertical size no...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 3 Not under consideration

add floating border in UI

When viewing a call in Analyzing > Call, lets say a DB call lots of data regarding the query will not fit the right hand window. I know that you can hit the "Copy" button or use the slider in that frame but I want to do a screenshot with both C...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Not under consideration