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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...

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Enable Multi Resource Graphing to have the option of going over 100% so that vCPU which can peak to 150% or more can provide context for rightsizing.

It used to be that the multi-resource graph went above 100% but some customers didn't like that. So it was capped at 100%. This customer though sees big value in seeing when those peaks happen for proper context on rightsizing decisions and troubl...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2

Support for centralized Azure Hybrid Benefit (centralized AHUB)

Azure came up with Centralized AHUB support for SQL licenses. Similar in concept to CUDs, where the customers can create a pool of licenses and have the SQL instances (SQL databases, managed instances etc ) consume the license from the pool. When ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Azure Savings Plans for compute (VMs)

Earlier this year Azure came up with Savings plans support for compute. Similar in concept to AWS Savings plans. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/offers/savings-plan-compute/#benefits-and-features Product does not currently support this. ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Planned for future release

Implementing a RBAC based access for displaying the PII information in the tracing details

Hi Team, As we were evaluating the usage of Instana Real user monitoring, we saw a concern about all users be able to see the PII information like user name and email address, however we want to limit these details only to a specific set of users...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Real User Monitoring 3 Future consideration

Support for AHV VM storage

Currently AHV VHDs/disks are not stitched to VMs. Adding support would improve cloud migration planning and resizing/action recommendations.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

WAAPI method filter.createOrReplaceFilter not working as they expect, new feature or API method requested

The Customer is using the WAAPI method filter.createOrReplaceFilter. They have found that if the filter that this is being run on is a dependency for another filter then the file.createOrReplace does not complete. It has been confirmed that this i...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Is a defect

Pure Storage Data Reduction Ratios not being picked up by Turbo. Using the manual Over-provisioning %. Therefore Turbo makes unnecessary Provision Disk Array Recommendations

The customer says Turbo's AI should be picking up data that is available in the PURE Storage system - and should not be requiring that the Storage Capacity Planners be adjusting the Storage Overprovisioned Percentage in the Disk Array Policy. I wi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Constrained vCPU VM's from Azure taken into consideration for recommendations

Azure has a class of VM's that have constrained vCPU's for DB vm's that often require high memory, storage and IO bandwidth, but not high core count. So the VM class will basically only use a portion of the core count for that class to save money ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 1 Not under consideration

expose datacenter together with nodeID at cassandra node level metrics

Cassandra metrics with instana are presented at cluster level or at node level. Cassandra clusters often have multiple data centers (DC). If one runs a nodetool status command, they can see a list of all nodes (showing node name, nodeID,...) group...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Nginx Metric Collection

The customer wants to enable metric collection for their Nginx-based application. These applications are containerized and running on OpenShift. We totally understand that we should change nginx.conf file in order to enable metrics collection (htt...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Not under consideration