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Single place to manage agent configuration

Now to configure the agent you must modify the configuration.yaml on the server. The idea is to have a place inside instana front to configure the configuration.yaml of each agent.
about 14 hours ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Allow the NMS to purge SNMP devices either missing at the SNMP agent (packet error on polling that OID) or missing completely (no response to TCP packets)

As per title, the cluster settings call for set up parameters that take care handling operative or missing objects. However, this should also allow for the removal of any objects with a SNMP Operational or Administrative Status other than down per...
3 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Please include Custom date range in the custom metric timeline

Currently the custom metric in apptioBI has only standard timelines like : "this week", "last week", etc.. and the only option of customization is inherit date from visualization, but when we use multiple custom metrics in the report for different...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration
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In GCP there are Flex CUDs that are used to reduce Ondemand costs on compute Resources. Turbonomic should discover and take Flex CUDs in consideration when rightsizing

This is useful as more clients on GCP are moving towards flex cuds and Turbonomic's rightsizing decisions need to take those into consideration to have trustworthy decisions on GCP compute resources.
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Update BIOS in OVA distribution from legacy BIOS to EUFI

Current BIOS in Rocky Linux OVA is legacy BIOS. Customer is requesting an EUFI BIOS image.
11 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 5 Future consideration

Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Reserved Coverage Rate metric needs to include Azure's MS Fabric

We have dashboard widgets to surface our Reserved Coverage Rate. We recently purchased large reservations for Microsoft Fabric and the Reserved Coverage Rate never increased. We subsequently learned that Fabric was not included in the Metric.
12 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Verizon Wireless needs an API to create and maintain maps in DI

Verizon Wireless has hundreds of status maps managed by scripts currently, it would be unthinkable to have them manually create and maintain those maps in DI maps
23 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 2 Future consideration

Consistent sizing: Allow consistent number of vCPUs instead of consistent CPU capacity in MHz

Customers are not using MHz or GHz when they are dealing with CPU capacity of VMs but vCPUs. Thus, for a user consistent resizing shall - at least as an option - result in the same number of vCPUs. For a user it’s really hard to understand if the ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Version field for Instances in Cloudability

Multiple tenants requested the OS Version field of the Instances as they will use the below combination of dimensions and metrics to create custom KPI's for reporting. This was already used with our previous tool and the lack of the OS Version inf...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 3 Future consideration