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Instana Backend (zLinux, Power, x86, OCP, k8s) Custom Edition should be offered on Redhat, IBM, and AWS Operator Hubs for our customers.

The operators necessary for installing the Custom and Standard editions would be available on Redhat and IBM Operator hubs.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Future consideration

Add support for Amazon DynamoDB (Turbonomic)

Many of our customers (including potential customers) use AWS Dynamo DB, and the support for it is the key to Turbonomic's penetration to the Japanese market and customers' higher satisfaction. Your prompt cooperation to our idea would be highly a...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Future consideration

Support for Azure SQL reserved capacity

Product doesn't currently support Azure SQL (PaaS) reserved capacity. This functionality is similar conceptually to Reserved Instances for VMs; however, it applies to SQL. Impact: Turbonomic will potentially create pending actions to scale a SQL d...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Add support to simulate effect of changes in the commitment portfolio an Turbonomic actions for workload optimization

The current plan feature supports to select the existing RIs that shall be considered when running the plan. Please add the capability to also be able to simulate the effect on Turbonomic actions for workload optimization for the following scenari...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Support Azure Databases beyond MS SQL

Today Turbonomic only support DBaaS for Azure, workloads with DB Engine MS SQL Server. Customer have Postgres, MySQL and MariaDB too. My customer for instance has more than 50% of databases Postgres.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Instana Active User information in Instana itself

The customer would like to be able to get a view of how many daily/weekly/monthly active users are using Instana. Having a view on this according to role/group/team would also be useful.
over 5 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 2 Not under consideration

Prevent action failures when executing RDS scaling actions for instances running deprecated versions

This prevents Turbo from making recommendations that cannot be executed and makes automating such actions easier. My idea is to discover the DB version (This is already done today) and generate the current scaling recommendations with a pre-requis...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Future consideration

Dashboard threshold and Y-Axis label

Currently the charts are miss understandable because of the missing y-axis label and the missing possibility to paint a simple line Threshold Line Make it possible to add a line or two in the charts to visualize good an not so good values. Maybe a...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal / User Interface 1

CosmosDB autoscaling options

With MSFT turning on Autoscale V2 features, there's a number of CosmosDB databases running at the lowest levels, but that CAN benefit from turning on Autoscaling. Having this feature enabled as an OPTION in CosmosDB / Turbonomic would be excessive...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Future consideration

Integrate Alibaba Cloud SAAS monitoring data collection

Many users use Alibaba Cloud SAAS or PAAS services, and we need to use Instana to integrate Alibaba Cloud related indicator data for alarm and AI analysis. IBM official development is required to integrate Alibaba Cloud service data.
10 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Planned for future release