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Database Server Max Observation Period set to 90 days

We have Max Observation Period of 90 days for Virtual Machine and Volume. We are expecting the same max 90 days observation period for Database Server too. Application Team wants to see the utilization through 90 days to decide on the scaling reco...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Request to Enable Retrieval and Display of Metrics Equivalent to Navigator for i

For users who integrate IBM i with other systems, relying solely on Navigator for i for IBM i operations is inefficient.Meanwhile, the metrics that can be retrieved via Instana for IBM i are fewer than those available through Navigator for i, whic...
14 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Request to support locales other than English for DB on i.

Currently, the agent only supports the English locale for DB on i.However, many Japanese users have their locale set to Japan, and this situation is causing many IBM i users to miss out on the opportunity to use Instana. With support, Instana's bu...
13 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Product Feature Proposal: GCP DBaaS Support

Objective: Enhance IBM Turbonomic's capabilities to include automated optimization for GCP's PaaS database services, such as Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Bigtable, Firestore, and Memorystore. Rationale: Diverse PaaS Database Offerings ...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 7 Future consideration

Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Functionality already exists

Expanded Multi-Channel Notification Support for Parking and System Events in Turbonomic

Hi Team, It would be very beneficial to add enhanced user notification options in Turbonomic, especially for parking-related events and actions. Ideally, users should be able to configure notifications for these actions through multiple channels s...
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Future consideration

Change the MSGW filtering by excluding the jobs in MSGW without a reply needed

Customers might have a few (or more) jobs in MSGW that don't actually need a reply. When configuring the MSGW monitoring in the INSTANA configuration.yaml, you can only define status/subsystem, so everything in MSGW would be considered, generating...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Capability for adding Targets in Google Cloud Platform - CloudSQL/BigTable etc

In the current versions of Turbonomic, there is no capability for finding Google Cloud Platform - Cloud SQL and other databases as targets. Its a high time as many of our customers are adopting to GCP.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 2 Future consideration

Create menu to admin agent in as400

Request for Enhancement: Local Installation of Instana Agent on AS400 The security department has identified a potential vulnerability in the way the Instana agent is currently started. Currently, the user is granted *ALLOBJ permissions to execute...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Discover DBaaS reservations for max utilization and optimization

Similar to what Turbonomic do with VM reservations, Turbonomic should be able to discover, maximize utilization and provide recommendations on DBaaS factoring in Reservations.
15 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Submitted