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PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...
PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Flexible data storage requirements for appliances

The data storage requirements for the PAS and DNC are rigid at present. While a customer may not have a requirement to archive metric and flow data for a period of 1 year, the ova files are pre configured with a set storage requirement. The storag...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Azure offer reservations for Azure CosmosDB. Can we see and recommend CosmosDB reservations please?

Azure offers 65% discounts on COSMOS - this can save the customer a lot of money if properly managed. Turbo could help the client make the right decisions. Rightsize FIRST - then Recommend COSMOS RI SECOND
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Support logical groups of resources to allow actions to be sequenced

Add support for “Logical group names” function that Park My Cloud had. logically group resources together that allow me to then sequence the order that groups of resources are stopped and started.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Planned for future release

Add support for GCP SQL database

looking for Stop, Start and Scale a GCP SQL instance.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

ASM servicenow observer to provide improved filtering of data either within the observation or post collection prior to insertion

It's useful because at the moment we have limited filtering in the filer API request, it applies to all classes being discovered and is applied to the API call made to servicenow. So you get a choice of Include or Exclude, but not the ability to c...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Allow more than one servicenow observer job to run which will allow us to improve observation times and more control over when/what we collect

At the moment whilst you can create more than one servicenow observer job, it is pretty useless as even though they have different job names and a different set of classes associated in discovery what tends to happen is that you might have a job t...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Servicenow-Observer to provide ability to discover relationships tables separately from resource discovery

At present when discovering resources from servicenow we specify the tables to collect data from and have to be explicit with the parent and child classes because whilst resources can be discovered from the parent class and it traverses the childr...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add Cloud IP Management to Turbonomic

The client has shown a keen interest in Turbonomic being able to monitor and automate actions related to IPs in the Cloud. Following a recent discussion with their Cloud Provider, they learned that IP prices are slated to surge by fivefold. Conseq...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Add the ability for the optional use of Key Based Authentication

We have a business use case around key based authentication. We have a group that would like to provide data for Power VM probe but are having issues with AD base authentication as they use key based for the rest of there processes. We would like ...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Planned for future release

Integration to load testing tools like Radview WebLOAD

We see some companies use load testing tools that integrate with our competitors such as Dynatrace. An example is WebLOAD from Radview. Can we provide an integration to load testing tools? Its a common problem when we install instana at a POC that...
2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted