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Workload Planning - more providers: OCI, Stackit

Currently in Apptio Workload planning, we only have AWS, Azure and GCP. Please consider implementing also OCI and Stackit to allow a comparison of cost of resources across more cloud providers
about 3 hours ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 0 Submitted

Flagging Promotional Credits in GCP as Promotional Credits instead of falling under the general bucket of credits

Customers like Ulta and others have millions of dollars in Promotional Credits each year. Currently Cloudability doesn't offer the option to flag these promotional credits as Promotional Credits, rather they fall under the general bucket of Credit...
about 23 hours ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Add possibility of creating public dashboard and exposing it without authentication

Hello Colleagues, we have a second request, please consider adding a functionality of creating a public dashboard with it's exposure without authentication. Thank you
3 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Container Platform Clusters - "Executed Actions - Succeded and Failed" widget with empty data

For Turbonomic, In the search -> Container Platform Clusters option, the "Executed Actions - Succeeded or Failed" widget doesn't display any data for a specific cluster. The customer opened a support case ticket (TS020249556) and the response f...
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

Native Instana Support for Oracle GoldenGate (On-Prem & OCI)

Oracle GoldenGate (OGG) is a mission-critical replication technology widely used in financial services, retail, and telco customers. Today, Instana does not have a native sensor for OGG, which forces customers to rely on custom scripts, Prometheus...
9 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

We would like to request an increase in the current limit (400) of Kafka Topics that can be displayed in the Instana UI.

The Instana UI currently has a limitation of displaying up to 400 Kafka Topics. However, in our production environment, we expect to configure more than 1,000 Topics. Since all of these Topics are important for our operations, it is necessary for ...
9 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Consistent sizing: Show group member(s) with highest utilization which determine size of the group

In Turbonomic UI you don't have a chance to easily identify the member of a consistent resizing group with the highest load which determines the VM size for the group. This becomes almost impossible when comparing VMs running on hosts with differe...

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 ...

Support for ElasticSearch v8.18 and higher

Currently, Instana Sensor supports until v8.17.1 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.299?topic=technologies-monitoring-elasticsearch#configuration. ElasticSearch has already moved to v9.x and Instana support for ElasticSearch has...
9 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

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...
21 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers 1 Submitted