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Allow group filtering against another group

There is currently no good way (outside of tag modification) to quickly exclude an entity from Group A when including it into Group B. This results in a cumbersome process to exclude an entity from one group while including it in another group. Ad...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration

Include Suspend Actions in Container Pods Automation Policy

Currently, the automation policy for container pods includes only the "Move" action in the automation workflow. However, we've received feedback from customers who prefer not to see "Suspend" actions for container pods in the Action Center. To add...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / Policies 3 Not under consideration

Add "180 /365 days" and/or "any number of days" for Max Observation Period

Requests:.1.Add 180 days and 365 days to max observation period2.Make it possible to set any number of days for max observation period (e.g. 14 days, 60 days, etc.) Background:.Japanese customers often have stable system environments and request l...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration

enable 'resize when powered off' to work with public cloud vm's

Anyone with public cloud vm's where they want to create an automation policy that executes only when a said vm is idle
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Planned for future release

Enable Retrieval of Current CPU/Memory Usage for Kubernetes Pods and Namespaces via REST API

Currently, Instana’s API allows fetching the CPU and memory limit and request values for Kubernetes pods and namespaces. However, it lacks the capability to retrieve current usage metrics such as actual CPU and memory usage.
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

Enable VMEM and VCPU Minimum Thresholds for Cloud based VMs

When dealing with 3rd party products, support plans, and licensing, there are often constraints placed on systems for preserving a minimum specification. Same would be true for maximums when it comes to things like database licensing that is tied ...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Exclude entities from licensing based on tags, services etc. so not all entities are discovered for a specific integration.

For a given integration such as AWS, exclude specific services such as EMR that is underpinned by EC2. This allows Organisations flexibility with regards to entities that need to be discovered and optimised for the target account.
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Future consideration

Ability to copy the entirety of an SQL query identified as truncated in INSTANA

SQL queries that are too long appear truncated in the INSTANA traces. However, for the analysis of resource-intensive queries. it is often important to access the entire query to clearly identify it. In my case, the "where" clauses of the problema...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Mobile Application for Instana

The mobile app will provide end-to-end observability features from App Perspectives and Events to Analytics and Call Track Trace Views, including personalized alerting for teams and individuals. The goal is to deliver continuous insight and rapid ...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Filter based on risk category and description

Please add support to be able to create a group based on risk category (and description if possible) so that I can build policies that are specific to different types of risk. For example, I would like to be able to create a group and policy that ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration