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Commitment Support for GCP BigQuery Slot Commitments

Commitment Support for GCP BigQuery Slot Commitments
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Future consideration

Increase Retention Time for Mobile App Beacons

We currently only have a history of 7 days which is not even covering an entire release cycle of 2 weeks. Ideally would be a data retention time of at least 4 weeks so we can compare data over a longer period and especially with the previous rollo...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure Future consideration

Dollar value for on-prem scaling - just like Cloud. Each action has a saving/cost to it.

The customer would like Turbo to put a price tag on each action. They want to be able to tell how much adding vMem or vCPU or a combo. to a VMware VM costs. The customer is aware that it depends on a bunch of things (cost/hr of host, cost/hr of da...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) Planned for future release

Log SmartAlert Grouping limitation

Currently the log alert grouping is limited to a single dimension. GlobleLife is advanced used and require multi-dimentionsl grouping using Application, environment, host, error type, database, and support team. This will allow them to send the al...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert Planned for future release

Support for FileStatsReceiver under IDOT collector for Windows

The file system can become burdened with high file usage when there are many stale files or missing files. The FileStatsReceiver helps identify stale or missing files in the system.
about 2 months ago in Instana / OpenTelemetry

Support for WindowsPerfCountersReceiver

GlobeLife has extensive Windows systems in their environment. IBM provided IDOT Collector for Window platform. Current IDOT doesn't seem to support WindowsPerfCountersReceives. To get a deeper understanding of the windows platform, this will be es...
about 2 months ago in Instana / OpenTelemetry

Allow individual Action types to be configured for Virtual Volume Policy (and any other Policy that uses the Toggle UI construct)

When defining a Virtual Volume Policy, all of the Scaling actions are grouped under an "enable/disable" Toggle. If the Toggle is enabled, you MUST define all of the available Action types. It is not possible to have a Policy that configures ONLY e...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

Virtual Volume user-defined Policy default behavior should be updated

The default behavior for User-defined Virtual Volume Policies is based on the constituent members of the related Scope Group(s). Currently, if the Scope Group(s) membership is: Empty or unknown group→ 0 options (no scale action section shown at al...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

Expose ROI/savings details and Manage Group Filters directly within the Rightsizing experience.

The customer would like the existing ROI/savings information to be available directly within Rightsizing, rather than requiring users to navigate separately to the ROI module. The Rightsizing view should also support Manage Group Filters, allowing...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Future consideration

AIOpsEdge CR Enhancement Request: Support Custom TLS Certificate Injection for Webhook Connector Routes on OpenShift

The aiopsedge-operator currently does not provide a mechanism to inject a custom TLS certificate into webhook connector Routes. On ROKS clusters configured with custom domains, this limitation results in TLS validation failures across all webhook ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Planned for future release