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Filter based on risk category and description

Please add support to be able to create a group based on risk category (and description if possible) so that I can build policies that are specific to different types of risk. For example, I would like to be able to create a group and policy that ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Support OpenSearch as Self-Hosted datastore

As an user of the Self Hosted Instana Backend/Datastore, it would be beneficial to be able to replace ElasticSearch with OpenSerach (Interpropability of ES and OS). OpenSearch is available as a managed service on AWS or as K8s operator (https://gi...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration

Allow a method to report on cost savings (lost/hidden) by policy

Allow a way to look at actions that would be generated by policy but that are excluded. Example: If I create a policy to generate no actions on a specific subscription, I would like to be able to see what the "potential" savings are that are hidde...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Add Instana to RedHat ODF sizer

Dear colleagues, please consider adding Instana to RedHat ODF sizer: https://sizer.ocs.ninja/ Thank you
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Instana or Instana agents capability to cache data, during Instana backend upgrade

Hello Team, we are reaching out to request an enhancement to improve data retention capabilities during Instana backend infrastructure upgrades. Recently, during our self-host air-gapped environment Instana backend upgrade, we observed that all In...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value. For example, I would like to create a policy that restricts a group of VMs to stay within a certain architecture type such as V5. This is important in some cases based ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Provide a means of identifying/managing policies with no/empty scope groups

As a user I would like the ability to identify policies that no longer have a scope group associated or groups that no longer have any members, so that I can ensure my automation is being enforced correctly as well as reduce "clutter".
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Allow percentage parameter for consistent resize fault tolerance (on top of number of nodes)

The current private preview version of Consistent Resize Fault Tolerance support allows for configuration of "number of nodes" a group is capable of losing and supporting from a resize perspective. This idea is to allow configuration by percentage...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

New Logging feature available for docker-based on-prem installation

According to this: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=premises-installing-instana-backend-kubernetesopenshift#61-logging-beta it is only possible to enable this if using the Operator.Could we please document how to set...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Logging / Self Hosted 4 Not under consideration

Filter Parking entities by custom group

At the moment if we want to park a group of VM's using Turbo we can select by Resource Group or Subscription. It would be helpful to be able filter to a group of VM's defined in a custom group or related to a specific application topology
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration