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Ability to Make the POST Targets endpoint Non-Blocking when adding New Targets

When using the API to add targets in bulk, each call to add a target is blocking and requires validation to complete (success or fail) before returning a HTTP response. This is less than ideal since the script/process adding targets has to wait fo...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Call tag values always treated as String

Our implementation of tracking flows into Db2 for z/OS via JDBC , the Db2 for z/OS and Z Common Data Provider are required. Once installed and configured, we provide metrics (such as cpu_time, smf_id, io_wait, subsystem_id, elapsed_time, lock_wait...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Cross teams/areas / DB2 / IBM Z / Metric Store / Other Tracers / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Host-Agnostic Custom Events on StatsD Metrics

Having Application-specific StatsD metrics sent to Instana is helpful when creating custom dashboards, where we can monitor the change in metrics regardless of which host is sending them. However the custom events are tied to a specific host which...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

Verify via API when the Nightly Plans Are Completed

Some customers run overnight processes to evaluate capacity and availability data from Turbo to be integrated into other internal systems. These programs need to run only after our Nightly Plans process has finished up. They have requested a simpl...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

ParkMyCloud API Enhancement to append users to teams

All could benefit. This enhancement would allow anyone using the API to provide user access to teams via the API, without having to also include all users who already have access.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Self-service cost adjustment feature to the custom cost metric

Implement a self-service cost adjustment feature to the custom cost metric that allows users to update themselves, eliminating the need to create a support case and providing immediate, accurate cloud cost visibility.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Other 1 Planned for future release

Expanded Resource Inventory and Reservation Inventory

Expanded Resource Inventory and Reservation Inventory: We currently only have resource inventory for EC2, EBS, S3, RDS and Redshift. Some of our M&As are big OpenSearch, ElastiCache and Memory DB users so the resource information would be help...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Not under consideration

change time frame resolution in Chart: Time Series.

We want to change the resolution as shown in the chart time series graphs, Instana establishes by default a granularity according to the time frame that one selects., we want to change the resolution in a personalized way, it would allow us to ana...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Metric Store / User Interface 2 Future consideration

Extend the agent prometheus import with openmetrics standard

Hello, As of today, if you want to import metrics following this standard, you can't use the PROM importer despite this format is supported by PROM itsef. https://openmetrics.io/ The only alternative is to use telegraf to convert the prom metrics ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Metric Store 3 Not under consideration

Rate Function without the mean over time

A customer is using Instana Dashboard to display Prometheus metrics and using the Mean and Rate function. The calculation of the Rate function returns the difference divided by the time period. The customers idea is to have an option or the metric...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Metric Store / User Interface 0 Future consideration