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Tailor the views for observer role with a defined scope to only show the entities defined in the target group

Integration: On-prem VMware integration. Entity type: Virtual machine In large enterprise, the hypervisor, clusters and nodes are maintained by a centralised team. This team is responsible for automation, moving VMs to remove contention, maintain ...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0

Provide a mechanism to add notes to a Turbonomic generated action and the ability to mark the action as "not taken" or "delayed" and provide a reason

We often have teams who either do not believe and optimization is needed or have a business justification for not taking a recommendation currently or ever. We are currently tracking those in separate spreadsheets without the ability to provide in...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Kubernetes HPA Integration

Turbonomic integration with HPA to ingest memory/CPU metrics and provide recommendations on what to set optimal metrics settings to. Additionally, action generation using recommended settings to scale number of container pods to optimal configurat...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

Add an UNDO button for actions

Many times, users approve rightsizing of application VMs based on Turbo recommendations and realize as soon as it is completed that the change causes problems. The immediately request we "put it back" and we need to research the original configura...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 6 Not under consideration

Create simplified alternative automated solution (Watsonx?) for managing database credentials in agent configuration.yaml file in large dynamic environments.

>During Adobe Instana POC customer provided feedback that the Instana agent configuration that is specific to Adobe's environment seems complex, time consuming, and cumbersome: Create simplified alternative automated solution for managing datab...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Deploy different instana-agent.customresource.yaml in k8s worker nodes

Hi, Based on the fact that not all the worker nodes run the same applications and ca be different between each others, it can be needed yo deploy different configuration.yaml files based on the needs. For example, put some custom tags inside some ...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

User cards should be exportable 'as is' so we can control what is seen when another user downloads. We can control what is see via lists or on the User screen, but not the export.

Currently we have fields that we are only allowing Admins to see in views and screens, but a user can still see those fields if they export one of the views that have 'User' as a card. This is information that we would like to keep hidden on expor...
8 months ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Planned for future release

Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solutio...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Future consideration

Native monitoring and Tracing for RUST

Collection of metrics, traces, and context-rich events from Rust-based services, bringing full-stack observability to one of the fastest-growing ecosystems in modern development. Rust is increasingly being adopted for building high-performance, re...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

vGPU Optimization & Utilization Metrics

My customers have a GPU pool for their VMs and Containers.They'd like to see the "move" or "placement" recommendations for the VMs that are using vGPU Resources.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration