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Commitment Support for AWS Database Savings Plans

AWS has introduced Database Savings Plans, a commitment-based discount model that reduces eligible managed database costs by up to 35% with an hourly $/hour commitment over a 1-year term, automatically applying each hour to eligible database usage...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 6 Planned for future release

Turbonomic Grafana Schema Change in Metrics table required to support Clients that want to see Storage Consumption over TimeSeries with Multiple Volumes.

Current Metrics Table does not get all the Volumes extracted from Turbonomic in the exporter. My client needs to calculate the average Storage Consumption for multiple applications over time, but currently the Metrics Table stores consumption data...
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Planned for future release
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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.
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Planned for future release

Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

Customer needs support for monitoring Oracle Data Guard.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Plan function, moving VMs from Vmware onprem to Openshift Virtualization

We have a Strategic customer (already Turbonomic customer) in Italy, with a strong deadline (end of 2026) to migrate Vmware -> RH openshift virt.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Need ability to configure retention period for Traces and Transactional data - Backend database

In Instana we have ability to configure retention period for metrics data and but not for Traces and Transactional data, I need the same flexibility to configure retention period for Traces and Transactional data as well. for example my clickhouse...
2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Planned for future release

Ability to create alerts using K8s event

Instana offers the ability to create alerts and smart alerts from events, but the creation of alerts from Kubernetes events is not currently supported. The goal is to have this feature available so customers can set up alerts to track specific eve...
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

Plan-level permissions should have a way to sync with the global permissions

Currently (Planning v 1.x) when a Plan is created, it takes the global permission set as a temlate, and keeps it. When we do an update - adding a new user, removing users, changing who edits which Cost Object, etc - this has to be made in every op...
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Enable choose between savings/performance for Volume and Database policies

We can't choose at Volume or Database policies savings actions or performance actions. You need to execute everything or nothing. The customers sometimes choose to execute automatically only savings and vice versa.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Planned for future release

Monitoring capability for IBMi temporary addresss metric

Customer want to monitor temporayry address metric on IBMi(AS400), Because there are some issues for consuming this temporary address. So, it must monitor , but Instana can't monitor this metric. Please add enhanced function for monitoring tempora...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Planned for future release