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Clearly identify Cloud vs On-prem specific policy settings to avoid customer confusion

Clearly identify Cloud vs On-prem specific policy settings Turbonomic is showing both cloud and on-prem policy settings when cloud VMs settings are ignored (cloud VMs settings should not appear to avoid customer confusion) For customers that have ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Show stack trace on 1st call in a trace

Currently the customer is showing stack traces on 2nd call, but the first call in a trace doesn't contain stack trace. We need this functionality for analysis of the 1st call of the trace.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

AWS Fargate Agent for Nuxt.js Fargate Collector

Instana currently supports the following Fargate Collectors: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-aws-fargateWe would be happy if you could add support for Nuxt.js as well.
7 months ago in Instana / Node / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Add support for Azure Microsoft Dynamics 365 to Instana

Add observability capability to Dynamics 365 to extend visibility into workloads running on that Azure service. That would enable an end-to-end traces accessing that service. That capability would be useful for all customers that are using Dynamic...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need to see whether an IBM MQ trace is a Put or a Get

The customer is monitoring an application where the first transaction that is monitored is a PUT onto a Queue within IBM MQ. The customer is using the Instana User Exit and it is set to DEBUG mode to force the Exit to trace all transactions. Curre...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Allow to be build a policy to generate VM delete action for VM being idle for a defined number of days or VM delete actions or at least a list of VMs probably no longer used (minimal CPU usage, no net

Based on Idea TURBO-I-450 (measure and display days a VM is being idle) please allow to set a policy to generate delete actions for VMs being idle for x days. In addition to that, allow to set a policy as it is available with all the cloud optimiz...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Planned for future release

Ensure 100 % Trace Visibility Across All Time‑Range Buckets

Problem / Use-case We learned that Instana rolls traces and spans into “time-buckets.” on serverside , for short and long term based traces, for operational technical reasons. Short presets such as Last 5 min or Last 15 min use very fine buckets (...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

The ability to execute pre and post scripts for parking VMs to make sure certain processes are up/down

We want the ability to run pre and post scripts to parking actions. these scripts can include commands to validate that certain processes are shutdown or have the script shut them down as well as make sure that certain processes are up when we pow...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration

Dynamically identify root volumes

Dynamically identify root volumes in order for us to exclude root volumes from policies This will allow us to filter out root volumes from some volume scaling actions. We want to be able to use the filter option in the group creation wizard to sco...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Tracing Granularity can show in microsecond

We know that the smallest unit ini Instana tracing is <1ms. somehow, there is couple of technology that sensitive to performance under 1 microsecond units. So, we hope that Instana can provide tracing in microsecond units instead of showing <...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration