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Price Currency Globaly

Nowadays it is only possible to change the price currency in a user context. The problem with this is that some people only have ready only access and cant change the currency settings on their own (no settings cause read only) that means all peop...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 2 Future consideration

Self-Monitoring Instana with Instana - Document Instana custom metrics

(Self-Hosted) Instana instances can be fully monitored using Instana. If you know which metrics (custom metrics in Instana) to look out for when workload or resources change. Instana should provide up-to-date documentation of internal custom metri...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Future consideration

Add functionality to allow automated configuration of IdP (LDAP, SAML, OIDC,...)

Self Hosted Customers want a way to configure and setup instana in a completely automated way with no/minimal manual intervention. Standard case is that you will also want to configure IdP in your tenant unit (e.g. LDAP, SAML, ...). This is not po...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Official Support for multiple tenant units for Self Hosted Custom Edition

Even the concept of Tenant Units is documented publicly on the installing self hosted custom edition documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=ice-installing#required-resources-custom-resource-definitions) - we...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Please make the Price adjustment tab cloud agnostic and allow users to enter in a static discount for a resource type

Currently, the Price adjustment tab is only valid for AWS subscriptions, despite there already being a separate AWS discounts tab. This is very confusing. Intutively, I would think the price adjustment tab should be used without without a billing ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Not under consideration

Support Cost Estimation for Scale Actions Without Billing Data Using AWS Public Pricing

In cases where cloud contracts are managed through vendors, it is sometimes not possible to reference the corresponding Billing targets. Under the current specification, this limitation prevents accurate cost calculations for scale actions due to ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Option to evaluate Cost Impact without considering commitments (only based on-demand rate)

When scaling VM, Cost Impact is impacted by discount coverages. They may vary, especially Savings Plan allocation are unpredictible and Reservations behavior are also very complex to predict.Then it makes sense to determine the Cost Impact only us...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Provide initial REST API Token without going to UI to support seemless automation

Customers want to setup and configure Instana Backend and the tenant units in an fully automated way with no/minimal manual intervention. Many of the configuration tasks (like e.g. configure RBAC etc.) can only done with Instana REST API ( https:/...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Instana run under a non-root after installation (Standard Edition)

Customer is expecting that all Instana processes should run under a non-root user after issuing stanctl up command. We were advice (by an Instana site reliability engineer) to do the following and if would solve the problem but it did not: copy /r...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Functionality already exists

Azure SQL Server License Improvements

1. Detect SQL Server Licenses when deployed from Azure Marketplace 2. Distinguish between AHUB for Windows and AHUB for SQL Server Current Limitation: All or nothing. If Windows AHUB license is detected, it is applied to all license types includin...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration