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Allow constraints based on the $$ savings of an action

It's helpful to have a special workflow for actions that save more money, so they get a different automation-schedule or attention or priority. The Turbonomic 'Action Center' lets you filter actions by savings but doesn't start a new process. To m...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration

Add Splunk APM as a native APM Target

Requesting target support for Splunk APM (SignalFX) for application infrastructure performance monitoring on AWS. During my customer's Turbo rollout, they came to realize that actions are being generated without APM insight that could be critical ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

SLO Horizontal Scalability with Datadog

Datadog's 2024 revenue was 2.6B USD against 1.6B USD from Dynatrace. It's clear Datadog's growth and the relevance. IBM advertise the SLO horizontal scaling which is a great way to deliver true elasticity, but today we only work with Instana and D...

Option to Filter or Suppress Specific Recommendations in Policy Enforcement

In Turbonomic, we often encounter scenarios where certain recommendations (such as resize, move, or suspend actions) are not immediately actionable due to operational dependencies, planned change windows, or business decisions. Currently, within t...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Business Mapping in IBM Turbonomic – Current Limitation and Needed Enhancement

Currently, in IBM Turbonomics, we can automatically create business mappings based on tag values only for Virtual Machines. I need this feature to also support and group other services such as storage, databases, and containers.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Rename "Rate of Resize" options

At the policies, we have in some of them the option of "Rate of Resize" with three options: 1, 2 and 3. The problem is the customer is looking at these numbers as the multiplier to the increments and not the level itself. We should rename to a bet...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Not under consideration

Have Turbonomic pull data from Infrastructure of Instana not Application Perspective

Have Turbonomic pull data from Infrastructure of Instana not Application Perspective. Since Instana views active VMs differently in the application perspective not all VMs show up and then does not populate to Turbonomic. But in Instana Infrastruc...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Not under consideration

Turbonomic Policy engine provides easy way for set affinity to newer generations of instance types when considering same size so tool does not suggest de-modernizing from db.8g.4xl to db.6g.4xl

Newer cloud Provider instance types may have price/performance benefits that customers are seeking. Customersmay have a policy and practice of running newer instance types (database, virtual machines, ...). It would be helpful if the Turbonomic po...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Provide Turbonomic Database Integration for Db2 on LUW

Turbonomics today has the capability to observe database performance and provide tuning recommendations for SQL Server, MySQL and Oracle. This functionality should be extended to include Db2 for LUW.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Planned for future release

Turbonomic (Cloud) integration with Microsoft Azure Client/Custom Policies

We define policies in Microsoft Azure to provide subscription management for Virtual Machine size limitations. Turbonomic cannot currently read custom Azure policy and will therefore recommend, and attempt, to resize certain VM sizes. These Turbon...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Future consideration