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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

Ability to get the volume of purchased licences through Instana API

Hello, Currently, I' m able to get the number of active apmhost and infrahost per day with the api endpoint : /api/instana/usage/hosts/{day}/{month}/{year} ############# Usage : https://xxxxxxxxxxx.instana.io ############# [{'time': 1724544000000,...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Automation 1 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

add conditions to triggers in automation tab

for the moment, it is possible to create a script that is launched based on triggered events. We would like to be able to add more conditions instead of just a trigger to the automated part of the execution of the script. for exemple : we have a w...
8 months ago in Instana / Automation 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

Policy Toggles to enable/disable a specific policy

Use case 1: Auto imported policies are not needed and are interfering with user defined policies. Enable a policy toggle to disable it at the policy level in Turbonomic so that no resources are affected by it. A bulk selection and disable menu ava...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Custom Metrics Collection via Scripts ( Bash / Python etc.,)

From agent to execute scripts and feed the data to Instana for custom alerts and metrics.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Automation / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Allow a method to report on cost savings (lost/hidden) by policy

Allow a way to look at actions that would be generated by policy but that are excluded. Example: If I create a policy to generate no actions on a specific subscription, I would like to be able to see what the "potential" savings are that are hidde...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

API Support for "Configure Endpoint Mapping"

We would like to request the addition of a public API to support automation of "Configure Endpoint Mapping" for services within Instana. Currently, this functionality is only available via the UI, making it difficult to configure multiple endpoint...
5 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

Sort and Group Policy List

When viewing any particular entity or scope, the list of policies on the Policy tab is a randomly sorted randomly named list. Since a majority of these policies are automatically being generated by Turbonomic based on cloud provider constraints, i...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Planned for future release