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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Allow a single SaaS instance to connect to multiple Service Now environments (Dev/Test/Prod)

From a Turbonomic SaaS instance there is a need to have Turbonomic connect to two Service Now environments. Some of the items in the market uses one service now environment while rest of Turbo uses the second one. This will allow for testing again...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Ask to clear active alerts after deleting a policy

When a user deletes an alert policy, we don't touch any of the active alerts that exist. Often a user then has to travel over, filter, clear etc. I'd recommend we add a dialog at the end of the policy deletion user flow that prompts the user with ...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration / Data Insight (DI) / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Enable Instana Agent Sampling

Enable Instana Agent to sample data e.g. traces. Best to do by customer configuration setting.
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Future consideration

Dolar and local currency

In Brazil, for customers who have AWS and another cloud with Azure and GCP, there is a big problem with the numbers displayed. In the latest version of Turbonomic, the local currency for Azure and GCP are default and AWS is necessarily in dollars....
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Create public Data Insight Reports

Hi team, regarding the Data Insight reports, at the moment you can display them if you login into DI appliance first. However, some of our leadership team doesn't have credentials to login into SevOne, so for that reason we would like to have the ...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Plan migration of cloud workloads back to on-premise datacenter.

Turbonomic allows us to plan a move of on-prem workloads to cloud (Azure), but we want the ability to plan moves of cloud workloads back on-prem. We are maintaining on-prem resources to allow for bringing our servers home, but need to make sure th...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration

Maintenance windows display a message/note for end users

Hi team, Customer asked: When placing a downtime on an entity(application, website, port) within Instana, is it possible to display a message/note in the latter? Example: For instance, we place a downtime between 13:00 – 18:00 an application named...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 Future consideration

Extend Turbo's parking/suspending capabilities to on-premises VMs

Extend Turbo's parking/suspending functionality to VMs in vmware/hyper-v enviornments. For all the same reasons Turbo supports parking VMs in the cloud, Turbo should extend this functionality to on-prem workloads. By turning off idle resources, Tu...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Get list view of Application services by CPU/memory utilization using Custom Dashboard

We need to get top list of cpu or memory utilization by service /application name as it will help identify which particular application is consuming high cpu/memory . This will facilitate team to take quick action.
12 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Future consideration

Create baselines based of netflow data

The specific ask from the customer is the ability to learn normal behaviour (and alert when there is an anomaly) of the IP flows going through the network (source IP, dest IP and application). This is a specific use case, but it would be great if ...
6 months ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 0 Future consideration