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Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Functionality already exists

Customisable links on Instana home dashboard

Currently, the Instana Home Dashboard provides quick-access links to resources such as “Install agents or collectors,” “Add user,” “IBM documentation,” “Release Notes,” and “Community blogs.” However, enterprise Instana users often require direct ...
21 days ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Ability to configure or override default retention period for Instana backend data dabases for traces/metrics data.

Hi Team, Current Installation Type: We have installed custom edition of Instana, and we have below datastores installed in our AWS EKS cluster. These backend datastores are using EBS volume. Day by day the data volumes are keep on increasing, and ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release

Correctly Calculate Parking Realized Savings

In the Executed Actions widget, the savings realized by suspend actions (as a consequence of a parking schedule) are incorrectly calculated. We downloaded the exported file and validated multiple cases. In the first place, it calculates the saving...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Add hours to SLO Objective lenght

We have a KPI that monitors the login failures and we need to define a SLO between 8 AM and 10PM, but with the current length options we cant do that. If its possible we would like to have the option to select specific dates that reoccur every day...
4 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Under review

Calculate Realized Savings using Effective Cost Basis

When we set the configuration of Cost Basis to use the Effective Cost (instead of on-demand), the Potential Savings are calculated based on Effective Cost, while the Realized Savings are calculated based on On-demand Cost. The consequence is that ...

Support Action Generation for GCP Managed Instance Groups (MIGs) in Turbonomic

Currently, Turbonomic does not generate actions for virtual machines (VMs) that are part of a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Managed Instance Group (MIG), unless a specific probe property is manually enabled (gcp.mig.vm.action.enabled). Even when ena...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 9

Create a parking policy for PMC users not to start any VM more than 7 days in park my cloud

To avoid more uptime of the VM which is underutilization. If need user can revisit and extend the pause of the VM after 7 days.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1