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Database Server Max Observation Period set to 90 days

We have Max Observation Period of 90 days for Virtual Machine and Volume. We are expecting the same max 90 days observation period for Database Server too. Application Team wants to see the utilization through 90 days to decide on the scaling reco...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Instana to monitor Windows services for all the Start types like Automatic and Manual

To further enhance Windows host monitoring, we request an enhancement to the IBM Instana Windows monitoring to support detailed Windows service monitoring with the following features: 1. Ability to monitor all Microsoft Windows services for their ...
2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Sync configuration between two Instana Backend instances

There is no tool available to download/upload the Standard Edition backend configuration - neither stanctl command nor UI option. Lack of such capability brings significant additional burden for operation teams running Instana self-hosted deployme...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Allow constraints based on the $$ savings of an action

It's helpful to have a special workflow for actions that save more money, so they get a different automation-schedule or attention or priority. The Turbonomic 'Action Center' lets you filter actions by savings but doesn't start a new process. To m...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration

Instana built-in health metrics

Instana backend provide built-in dashboard panels showing basic health metrics e.g. agent connection status, data delivery etc., backend data ingress and data ingestion status e.g. infrastructure, eum, events, user and apm
12 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Turbonomic Policy engine provides easy way for set affinity to newer generations of instance types when considering same size so tool does not suggest de-modernizing from db.8g.4xl to db.6g.4xl

Newer cloud Provider instance types may have price/performance benefits that customers are seeking. Customersmay have a policy and practice of running newer instance types (database, virtual machines, ...). It would be helpful if the Turbonomic po...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Direct action scheduling - Allow actions to be directly scheduled instead of needing to associate entity to policy and policy to schedule.

Allow actions to be directly scheduled instead of needing to associate entity to policy and policy to schedule. Direct scheduling should override any execution schedule at policy level until the action has been successfully executed. This would al...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic (Cloud) integration with Microsoft Azure Client/Custom Policies

We define policies in Microsoft Azure to provide subscription management for Virtual Machine size limitations. Turbonomic cannot currently read custom Azure policy and will therefore recommend, and attempt, to resize certain VM sizes. These Turbon...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Future consideration

Instana UI User Connection Management

Can we have the ability to manage our user connections to the UI? Reason is so that we can forcefully disconnect users in case of SOS and we don't want everyone to storm the Instana UI. We'd love to restrict access during emergencies quickly.
8 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 5 Future consideration

Auto-detect and exclude Hosts dedicated for maintenance/operational vacancy

Telefónica intentionally has some empty hosts, without load, exclusively to move load there during update/maintenance/obsolescence tasks. It is not a fixed rule, but it is usually one free host for every 8 or 9 hosts. This Telefónica's policy is a...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Future consideration