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Improve the executed actions widget

The user experience of executed actions widget currently is poor. It should be completely revamped. Some ideas are: 1) Include the policy name which caused the action to be executed automatically. Right now it just says system. 2) When an action f...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Support MSSQL Local Windows Authentication with FQDN-based Certificates

Description: Today the Instana MSSQL sensor in local mode with Windows Authentication validates the server certificate against the machine’s hostname. This fails in environments where SQL Server is configured to issue certificates that contain onl...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Ability to create alerts on aggregated prometheus metrics values over multiple K8s pods

In the prom metrics business metrics are captured for which the sum/aggregation needs to be a potential value to be alerted on.
almost 5 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 2

Monitor active jobs

There's a parameter inactiveJobs which checks for specific non-running jobs, but my customer would like to check also for specific running jobs, in the scenario where jobs are running that should not be running. We opened case TS018898330 and got ...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Option to evaluate Cost Impact without considering commitments (only based on-demand rate)

When scaling VM, Cost Impact is impacted by discount coverages. They may vary, especially Savings Plan allocation are unpredictible and Reservations behavior are also very complex to predict.Then it makes sense to determine the Cost Impact only us...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Not under consideration

To have a builtin integration to create/update Azure tags when a Turbonomic action is executed

To have a builtin integration to create/update Azure tags when a Turbonomic action is executed could avoid external developments.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

To have a builtin integration to unlock/lock Azure resource when a Turbonomic action is executed.

To have a builtin integration to unlock/lock Azure resource when a Turbonomic action is executed could avoid external developments.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Actions for Cloud SQL on GCP

Hello friends. A client migrated part of their applications from Azure to GCP. After migration, the client applied a series of cost-saving actions, but they missed actions for PaaS databases on GCP, actions that they had on Azure. My suggestion/re...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Allow Instana to perform deep monitoring of OpenShift

We recently had an issue in our OpenShift cluster where we were unable to authenticate against our AD server because the certificates on the AD server had expired. I would have expected that Instana was able to monitor OpenShift and alert us to th...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration