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Improve Location Selection UX in Synthetic Test Creation

During hands-on usage of Synthetic test creation, users noted that the location selection flow is not fully intuitive.Currently, users must explicitly click the “Add locations” button before they can see or search available locations. A more natur...
10 days ago in Instana / User Interface Not under consideration

Request for Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud) Support in Turbonomic

Dear Turbonomic Production Team, Turbonomic currently lacks support for Alibaba Cloud, and I strongly believe that incorporating this support would be invaluable, especially given the significant presence of Alibaba Cloud in the Chinese market. No...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Not under consideration

Enhancing the RUM(Real User Monitoring) of Instana by the feature like Dynatrace's Visual Complete.

Currently, Instana’s "onLoad time" metric does not include XHR (XMLHttpRequest) or fetch requests that occur after the initial page load. The "onLoad time" is specifically defined as the time from fetchStart to loadEventEnd according to the browse...
11 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring Not under consideration

Improve Power_Advisory_Workflow to tell users / stop when WatsonX is not available or set up.

At this time the Power_Advisory_Workflow requires WatsonX in order to be able to function. This is not stated in the documentation for setting up Power Workflows, nor does the workflow itself check for WatsonX. Instead, it will successfully run, p...
2 months ago in Concert Workflows Not under consideration

Lenovo XCLARITY

Client is looking to add Lenovo XCLARITY as they have many infras. For GOV2 environments, adding Lenovo XClarity as a Turbonomic Target enables secure, read-only hardware visibility (CPU, memory, power, health) for Lenovo ThinkSystem servers. This...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases Not under consideration

Functionality to export,edit,import IWS Database Objects in Excel (or some other form of spreadsheets)

This is an idea to add a functionality to export/import IWS Database Objects to/from IWS DB. Many IWS customers are requesting a functionality to export IWS Database Objects to a spreadsheet, edit them, then bulk import the objects back to IWS DB....
6 months ago in Workload Automation Not under consideration

Need to be able to install and manage Standard Edition via sudo

Today, in order to install and manage Instana Standard Edition, you must login as root. Running commands via sudo does not work properly. Many customers do not allow users to log onto servers as root. All elevated permissions must be accessed via ...
29 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Not under consideration

Support for multiple database hosts for Docker Compose deployments

In the Docker Compose setup for IBM Workload Automation (TWS and DWC), the DB_HOSTNAME variable accepts only one host. We have a database with a primary and backup host for failover, and in non-container setups (e.g., CLIConfig.properties), multip...
6 months ago in Workload Automation Not under consideration

Data retention configuration by size of disk-space

On Instana Standar Edition (On-Prem) the current data retention configuration is only by time (e.g. 7 days) - It would be much helpful if we can also configure by size of disk-space (e.g. 5Tb) as current feature is not very useful for customers wh...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Not under consideration

User Import/Export Functionality in Turbonomic (Parity with Legacy ParkMyCloud)

In Legacy ParkMyCloud, administrators can import and export users directly from the UI in Excel format. This capability is very useful for bulk user management, audits, and migrations. Request: Please add equivalent user import/export functionalit...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security Not under consideration