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Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Ability to configure or override default retention period for Instana backend data dabases for traces/metrics data.

Hi Team, Current Installation Type: We have installed custom edition of Instana, and we have below datastores installed in our AWS EKS cluster. These backend datastores are using EBS volume. Day by day the data volumes are keep on increasing, and ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Customisable links on Instana home dashboard

Currently, the Instana Home Dashboard provides quick-access links to resources such as “Install agents or collectors,” “Add user,” “IBM documentation,” “Release Notes,” and “Community blogs.” However, enterprise Instana users often require direct ...
21 days ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release

Correctly Calculate Parking Realized Savings

In the Executed Actions widget, the savings realized by suspend actions (as a consequence of a parking schedule) are incorrectly calculated. We downloaded the exported file and validated multiple cases. In the first place, it calculates the saving...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Add hours to SLO Objective lenght

We have a KPI that monitors the login failures and we need to define a SLO between 8 AM and 10PM, but with the current length options we cant do that. If its possible we would like to have the option to select specific dates that reoccur every day...
4 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Under review

We are looking for a solution to identify Turbonomic parking failures. If any VM that is part of the scheduler fails to start or stop at the scheduled time, we want to capture and review the log of that failure event.

We are looking for a solution to identify Turbonomic parking failures. If any VM that is part of the scheduler fails to start or stop at the scheduled time, we want to capture and review the log of that failure event. Please add a mechanism that h...
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

Discover DBaaS reservations for max utilization and optimization

Similar to what Turbonomic do with VM reservations, Turbonomic should be able to discover, maximize utilization and provide recommendations on DBaaS factoring in Reservations.
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Submitted

Discovering DR regions such as UAE Central

Lots of customers have workloads located in DR regions and some of these workloads require performance assurance and optimization. It will be valuable to have that visibility over DR regions as some customers also use the workloads there for produ...
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Consistant resizing for DBaaS on Azure

In the situation were there are 2 SQL DBaaS in high availability configuration ( Active-Passive ). When Turbo gives recommendation to size up or down the Active DB, it needs also to reflect that size on the DR or Backup DB to make sure when there ...
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Submitted