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Custom Dashboard Panel - Persist with filters values

In custom dashboard I'm not able to hold/save the custom dashboard data with filter values. So, I'm asking for a change in behavior on the existing preview filter feature within the custom dashboard. Please refer support ticket and attached screen...
about 5 hours ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

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...
about 3 hours ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

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...
about 8 hours ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Adding selection of policies in order to create different plan scenarios

Would it be possible to create a menu similar to placement policies when performing a plan, but for automation policies. This way we can do something like this: Lets say we have two policies already created: Policy 1 -> I want to scale workload...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

Customer needs support for monitoring Oracle Data Guard.
13 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Expanded Multi-Channel Notification Support for Parking and System Events in Turbonomic

Hi Team, It would be very beneficial to add enhanced user notification options in Turbonomic, especially for parking-related events and actions. Ideally, users should be able to configure notifications for these actions through multiple channels s...
about 2 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Submitted

Monitor managed Kafka services with remote JMX (e.g. with Amazon MSK)

There is no supported method in Instana at the moment to monitor/observe managed Kafka services on the public cloud providers, e.g. Amazon MSK. Instana needs a way to pull in metrics and traces from Amazon MSK using remote JMX: https://docs.aws.am...
about 2 hours ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Provide Recommendations Tailor to Expiring Commitments

Currently, Cloudability doesn’t allow users to get recommendations for more commitments if there’s already a plan in place, even if it’s about to expire. It would be helpful if Cloudability could make recommendations for Savings Plans / other comm...
about 4 hours ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Submitted

Increase the default Memory requests to some realistic numbers for foundational components

The default memory requests for every pod in Turbo out of the box is 384Mi which is just insanely low and not set in reality. These numbers should be increased to actually match the lowest possible usage especially for foundational components like...
about 7 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Have custom metric available in container section

Custom metric is the default metric as it included the chargeback
about 8 hours ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted