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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
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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Plan Migration to show a cost comparison between migrating to the different cloud providers

Instead of a user creating 3 plans (one for each provider) and moving between dashboards to compare. A customer wanted to see a single dashboard comparing the possible migrations to all clouds to decide on the best one.
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Not under consideration

Expand public cloud targets to include Oracle (specifically Oracle in C2E)

The US Federal government's C2E contract provides for AWS, Azure, Google, and Oracle public clouds in isolated, classified environments. Oracle is the only cloud that we do not support on C2E (high-side). Please add Oracle. I am happy to share mor...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration

Instana: Would like to see the Availability zone as part of the trace

Currently we are unable to filter using the availability zone in the Analytics>Applications/Calls tab. You can specify the availability zone in a Smart Alert, but when you try and analyze the issue you cannot filter on the Availability Zone.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Functionality already exists

To integrate IBM tivoli monitoring with BMC Helix or Moogsoft or PagerDuty

how to integrate IBM tivoli monitoring with BMC Helix or Moogsoft or PagerDuty by using (any of the integrate ITM to BMC Helix or Moogsoft or PagerDuty by using (any of methods like REST API, Webhooks or any other)
4 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Ability to show the cost of deployments prior to deploying infrastructure similar to Terraform Enterprise.

One of the things missing from the developer workflow is the ability for developers to see the cost of their deployments prior to them executing the pipelines. Terraform enterprise and Infracost provide a solution to this.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Include VIO Servers in the PowerVM support

I think it is important to support VIO Servers in the PowerVM support. At least add an option to allow the user to include VIO Servers. We used to have data/recommendations for VIOS when we were using Densify, so we knew we need to right-sized the...

To apply a common filter to all the charts in a instana dashboard

We don't have an option to apply a common filter to all the charts in a dashboard - this will be useful for adding a common filter like cluster name to all charts and reduce manual efforts
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1

Multiple tabs for a custom dashboard

At present we don't have option to add multiple tabs in a single instans custom dashboard, it will be hard to monitor by adding more number of charts within a same dashboard
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Have a way to duplicate a Group (from the GUI) into a new Group with a different name

We would like a way to copy/duplicate individual Group. This will be very useful especially for Groups that has complex filtering or has lots of static members. This will not only make group creation much faster in certain cases. (e.g. if the new ...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Turbonomic Health Alert Monitoring at Application/Instance level

We would like to enable instance-level monitoring to know the health alert status of the running Turbonomic application. In other words, users should get notified through automated email notification immediately if something goes wrong with the Tu...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2