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Get traces from CloudFlare Edge Workers

Instana does not seem to provide this at the moment.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers 2 Not under consideration

Reserved Instance Coverage Graph should ALSO be about % of costs not just % of machine hours.

Management at this company are more interested in what % of VM costs are covered by RIs than the % of machine hours. While RI Coverage % by machine hours is useful - can we have a radio button to switch it to costs.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Turbonomic to exclude discovering Cancelled Subscriptions

Discovering Cancelled Subscriptions lead to get the data of resources which are not actually billing and will have false savings reported from the recommendations of its resources.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

if a client has a special RI Discount % with Microsoft on top of the regular RI savings - that discount should be included under the effective cost column in the Discount Inventory Widget

If Turbo can't see this special RI Discount % , then the cost of the RIs are wrong. This causes issues in reporting and also affects the decision of whether the RI should be purchased or not. If this special RI Discount is NOT visible through any ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Customer wants to be informed which Azure Reserved Instances are not visible to the Turbo Azure Service Principal. This leads to improved cost information on savings.

See IBM Case TS011934194. In the discount inventory report available under Cloud, the column cost savings is wrongly indicated. Instead of calculating the savings by subtracting the PAYGO rate minus the 3 year RI reserved rate, the report is showi...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 2 Functionality already exists

Sub flow Monitoring inside the main flow of the Integration Node for IBM ACE Middleware

Its useful because many of the Financial Institutions like Banking sector would want to see the traces sub flows inside the main flow of any Integration Node in IBM App Connect.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers 1 Needs more information

Otel C++ SDK official support in AIX and RHEL

Now Otel C++ SDK is supported only for Ubuntu 2020 and Windows 2016.But in the IBM delivered financial systems, C++ applications are running in AIX and RHEL, which are considered to be more appropriate for Enterprise usecase. Please add Otel C++ S...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers 1

Support for httpd tracing library for Apache web server on z/Linux (s390x)

This support is critical for clients on z/Linux who have IBM IHS, which is based on httpd
about 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers 1 Future consideration

Allow OracleDB sensor data captured to be interrogated.

At present the information exposed by the OracleDB sensor is fairly limited. Furthermore, it is not possible to analyse the data in any detail. For example it shows top 10 SQL by CPU, but you can not search by SQL ID and see how the SQL has perfor...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 0 Future consideration

OracleDB sensor to work for Oracle Standard Edition as well as Enterprise Edition

Currently the Instana OracleDB sensor requires Oracle Enterprise Edition to access the full functionality, as this requires access to some views which in turn require Enterprise Edition to avoid any breaches of Oracle licence. The enhancement woul...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 0 Future consideration