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Create an option for latest gen storage or instance types

Turbonomic could be able to help assist in lifecycle management activities by suggesting only newer (assuming less expensive) hardware types. This avoids having to update hundreds of policies where explicit selections were previously made. Example...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Delivered

VCPU Resize Min threshold does not generate compliance actions

User Story: User has an application which needs a minimum of 3 cores for multithreading. He sets the VCPU Resize Min threshold to 3 BUT the machines which have 1 vCPU don't show 3 vCPU as the target size. He wants to force this - so he'd like a ch...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Delivered

HPA values for a Kubernetes namespace

The customer would like to plot/monitor the HPA values [default CPU based] in Instana.
over 4 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Delivered

Support for Instana Backend on OpenShift

Openshift support is on our roadmap and definitely something we want to support at Instana. Beta is planned for Q2 and GA for Q3.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Self Hosted 7 Delivered

IBM Observability by Instana

Hello, I want to submit a new idea (cosmectic idea) about for the field "age". We have only a format with hours but we are solliciting to have a new format with "days_hours_minutes" instead.For the moment, minutes are troncated. So 1 hour and 43 m...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 5 Delivered

Get container info button is available for containerd clusters

In clusters using the docker runtime there is a "container info" button in the UI - on the container details page - which shows environment variable values. This is missing for containerd clusters.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 0 Delivered

Automatic policy creation for instance type scale that take Availability Zones into consideration.

Sometimes, we encounter the error 'The requested configuration is currently not supported.' due to the instance scaling action. Example: t3.micro -> t3a.nano Regions where each instance type is supported: t3.micro: ap-northeast-1d, ap-northeast...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Delivered

Newly created Instance Types not be added automatically added to the existing policies

We have observed that, the polices are being automatically changed such that the newly created instance types by Azure and Google cloud providers are being selected in all the existing policies. This should not be happening in the policies created...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Delivered

I would like to monitor the health of etcd in a Kubernetes/OCP cluster

As the beating heart of my cluster, I would like to be able to monitor the health metrics of the cluster's etcd database.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Delivered

Time Shift in K8S and other views

It would be great to have "Time Shift" (from Applications) to other views. In particular it would be really useful at a Kubernetes Service/Deployment/Pod... level to compare the CPU/memory/etc. usage based on previous periods especially comparing ...
almost 5 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Delivered