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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...

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Import DRS Virtual Machine Options settings

Today, Turbo imports DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules. These rules help customers keep VMs together, apart, or only on certain hosts. Some customers (Facebook, NBC) use DRS's Virtual Machine Options to override DRS automation. This settings ar...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Planned for future release

Provide user notification of unsupported cloud instance type

As CSPs release new instance types and the customer deploys them to their environment before Turbo has implemented support, notify the user of the unsupported instance types. This will ensure that the user knows that action generation is suppresse...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 4 Future consideration

Numeric span tag data type support for custom traces

In its current implementation all custom tag data are treated as string data and filter by the related operators (is present, equals, not present, contains etc). Please see a screenshot of the existing operators available for custom tags via the I...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Future consideration

Combine Azure volume scaling with VM scaling based on VM tags

What is the desired customer use case?: The customer would like from a policy to trigger the actions and execute the n actions at the same time (automatically/programmatically using API calls based on VM tags to select all the action related to o...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration

Clearly identify Cloud vs On-prem specific policy settings to avoid customer confusion

Clearly identify Cloud vs On-prem specific policy settings Turbonomic is showing both cloud and on-prem policy settings when cloud VMs settings are ignored (cloud VMs settings should not appear to avoid customer confusion) For customers that have ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Planned for future release

Monitor external https endpoints

There are components /services in an application which do some calls to external http based services. I can see this calls in the analyze trace view. Is there a possibillity to get an aggregated view how this external service performs? In e.g. App...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

Relative deviation for custom events metrics

There should be a functionality to define the relative deviation instead of absolute deviation when creating custom events. For example, when we create a new custom event for "Entity - Application" and "Metric - Call count", we don't want to choos...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 3

Trace AWS Lambda for arbitrary function

Currently its expected that a Lambda function implements the interface com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestHandler to get traced. Because this interface is not needed, it should be possible to trace any Lambda function.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 3 Future consideration

Support rightsizing and mangling AWS Lambda functions

As clients are maturing in the cloud, we are noticing more services and application moving towards a server-less architecture. Identifying which configuration on Lambda is suitable based on the demand is challenging to customers, and each configur...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 2 Future consideration

Documented API twsd/plan/current/job/" + jobIdentifier + "/jobsuccessors/sublist/action/rerun

We use the twsd/plan/current/job/" + jobIdentifier + "/jobsuccessors/action/rerun which is well documented but we need alos to use the twsd/plan/current/job/" + jobIdentifier + "/jobsuccessors/sublist/action/rerun API which not documented. This AP...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release