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Add a metric to monitor the percentage of system spool consumption (based on PRTPRFINT command)

The IBM i can accumulate spooled files over time and consume significant space, potentially affecting system performance. Currently, this consumption is only reviewed manually using the PRTPRFINT command, which leads to a reactive monitoring appro...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Change vm uptime over more than a week

When someone is working with Turbonomic, inside action > Buy > Reserved instance we are only able to see the widget "VM UPTIME OVER A TYPICAL WEEK". That seems like all the buy reservations actions were based on a week study. We would like t...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Provide option to suppress “Unavailable billing data” pop up after it has been viewed

When a user navigates into Scale -> Virtual Machines of the Action Center, a yellow pop up appears that says "Unavailable Billing Data". It is a fairly large pop up in the upper right that almost completely blocks the "On-demand" and "Effective...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1

Realized Savings Details - Add column - Date

In the Realized Savings Details does not have a date column both in the UI as well the Excel report. The suggestion is to add to add a new column to add the Date Information in this view
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Planned for future release

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements The requirement is to exclude the message wait monitoring based on message text similar to "messageIdsExclude" in below code. messageQueueEvent: Lib-1/queueName1: ## Provide ...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

iSeries servers availability monitoring

iSeries servers are currently monitored remotely via the agent. However, we need to ensure that events are triggered in in case of below scenario.1. Server down2. Password expired3. Connectivity lost between iSeries to Agent
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i 3 Planned for future release

Display QAUDJRN audit metrics in customized dashboard

This capability would be useful for our AS400 customers who needs to parse their QAUDJRN audit journal metrics to a dashboard. So far, Instana can retrieve the metrics but unable to display it properly in its dashboard. We can extract the journal ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Show Parent Widget Name on Widget edit screen.

For example, if we would like to create a custom widget with "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity which used on "Cloud Executive Dashboard", but finding "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity from "Add Widget" function is not a easy task unfotunatelly...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Change the message description for Built-In event to show in understandable format

As of now we are getting multiple information Instana in Built-In event such as message , subsystem & job monitoring. The raw information such as description of the event is passed as it is to the ticketing tool in which it's showing the data ...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 5 Future consideration

Events should not be closed automatically until the issue gets resolved

The events are getting auto-closed in Instana for all the metrics such as Jobs, CPU, etc. We want the event to be closed only if the issue is resolved in the next poll.
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 4 Not under consideration