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Start Date Time and End Date Time should be captured in Instana Alerts via Mail/MSTeams

We have configured alerting for our services in Instana, but we have noticed that the email notifications for triggered alerts do not display the start and end times of the alert. The alert email only shows severity, entity, and message. Start tim...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Please change numerical fields in data downloads to be formatted as number on downloads

Hi IBM, I've noticed that when downloading any data from Turbonomic the csv or excel that is extracted does not format numerical data in a number format within csv/excel. Please can the scripting be changed on the download/extract function to form...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Self-Service capability to Postpone Scheduled Parking Shutdown

Introduce a self-service feature similar to Azure’s "Auto-shutdown" mechanism. Before a scheduled VM parking event, send an email notification to the designated VM owner. This email should offer the option to postpone the shutdown by 1 hour, 2 hou...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

Ability to self-monitor Instana REST API rate limits

A predefined dashboard that allows you to see the usage of Instana REST API for each API Token, to optimize the number of times or intervals of invoking the API to avoid reaching the rate limit quickly.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 5 Future consideration

Display QAUDJRN audit metrics in customized dashboard

This capability would be useful for our AS400 customers who needs to parse their QAUDJRN audit journal metrics to a dashboard. So far, Instana can retrieve the metrics but unable to display it properly in its dashboard. We can extract the journal ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Resizing widget locks scope. This is wrong behavior.

To reproduce, Search for Host clusters. Select any cluster. On the overview screen, resize the Host optimized improvements chart. Now as you advance through the other clusters, while other widgets will show that they are now scoped to the new clus...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Under review

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

Services and applications should support opentelemetry logs

Application Perspectives (and Services) cannot currently display logs ingested from OTEL, even though the logs are mapped to a service. We raised support case TS020036806 which was closed with the advice to submit an Aha idea for this to go to our...
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 0

Consider maximum utilization during POD startup in addition percentile value for the given observation period for memory limit scaling to prevent out-of-memory kills during POD startup

Some POD have a utilization peak during startup. The percentile-based approach may lead to not considering this peak or if the POD isn't restarted during the observation period this peak is not considered. Turbonomic may recommend to scale down th...

Have Turbonomic pull data from Infrastructure of Instana not Application Perspective

Have Turbonomic pull data from Infrastructure of Instana not Application Perspective. Since Instana views active VMs differently in the application perspective not all VMs show up and then does not populate to Turbonomic. But in Instana Infrastruc...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Not under consideration