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Plan results shall include all commodities (e.g. IOPS) relevant for the resulting sizing

When running a plan, especially a hardware refresh plan, you cannot see the reasoning for the resulting number of hosts if the reason is a commodity like IOPS not displayed in the plan results. Therefore, please display all commodities (e.g. IOPS)...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Planned for future release

In overlay windows such as action center the link to the entity on which homepage the overlay was opened does not work

In overlay windows such as action center the link to the entity on which homepage the overlay was opened does not work as it refers to the same URL. This is the case in all Turbo installations self-hosted and SaaS. Find attached a video outlining ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Context help on VM Policy Settings would really help customer understanding, and reduce calls to support.

I had to explain Memory Increase recommendations in detail last week - and a lot of the confusion was a lack of understanding of the scaling constraints. It would have been really helpful to drive home concepts with context help. Either the letter...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Not under consideration

tracing for work manager and data source of WebLgic

We want to trace the following WebLogic metrics: - as for work manager, execution thread count and queue retention count - as for data source, connection count and connection wait count
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Add support for vSAN Witness host

Implementing vSAN Stretched Clusters in a VMware vSphere environment requires setting up a witness host storing all meta data but hosting no VMs and acting as a quorum in a split brain situation (see https://core.vmware.com/resource/vsan-stretched...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Instana agent must bring metrics from multiple database services with different ports on local host.

The current Instana implemented code picks the “port” number from configuration.yaml file and figures out that what is database service name (or SID) and connects and brings-in corresponding metrics. IBM developers may update the code to read mult...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 4 Planned for future release

Improve i-Series agent performance

Using Instana to monitor IBM i-Series system is not being to successful due to the agent being to heavy on the CPU usage of the i-Series. We need an improvement on the performance of the agent, which currently is to heavy and clients are not willi...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Is a defect

renaming DB's

We love the new infrastructure view in instana and have been using the DB monitoring in particular. We've added 30+ db's and the information seems to be fine. Please see attached screenshots. The problem is that all of the db's in the list view cu...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

When exporting all Cloud Pending Actions from Actions Center, we would like to have the Resource ID (vendor ID from the entity information widget) included in the Export.

This would be extremely useful when reconciling cost data between Turbonomic and the AWS Billing console. Our FinOps Team and Budget Managers use data from both Turbonomic and AWS Billing Console to show the value of Turbonomic Recommended Actions.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Support kubeturbo communication flowing to a Secure Client

Kubeturbo communication need to be stablished directly to the SaaS Server, including On Prem Cloud Native clusters (in Hybrid environments). In a High secure environments with dozens (and even hundreds) of clusters, customers need to open firewall...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Functionality already exists