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Instana support local monitoring For IBM DataPower Physical Appliance

Currently, Instana’s support for DataPower is limited to remote monitoring options for the DataPower Physical Appliance. However, our client is requesting local monitoring capabilities on the appliance itself. Since DataPower operates as a black b...
over 1 year ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Improve security around "Share Page" views through Tauboard to not have security vulnerabilities

We had to turn off the "Share view" functionality because it would allow our users to share proprietary views outside of our company to anyone with an internet connection. We liked the ease of use and functionality of being able to share any infor...
about 2 years ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Future consideration

Punctuation in TBM Studio

In TBM studio in regular tables all sums below a table are shown without comma or dots between three digits. That means when you have 10000000 is hard to read. I would like to have 10.000.000 or 10,000,000 or even spaces would be okay. 
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Retrieve resilience metrics through OpenTelemetry via Workflows

Our customer is currently using Dynatrace as their APM solution and is also investing in OpenTelemetry. They would like the resilience metrics collected through OpenTelemetry to be ingested into Concert.
8 months ago in Concert Workflows 1 Not under consideration

Container Cost Allocation data available in Dashboard and Reporting

Customers would like to be able to build Cloudability dashboards and reports using the same data that is available in the Container Cost Allocation feature.
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Provide a notice when sharing Reports and Dashboards to Entire Organization

Provide a warning or notice when sharing dashboards to Entire Organization. The report or dashboards audience may not need to be the entire org. Its additionally helpful for when shard as view only, when the user leaves, and shared nobody has the ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Remember the selected 'Items per page:' settings across screens/sessions

Turbonomic should remember the selected 'Items per page:' settings across screens/sessions. As per the attached screenshot, when you select a setting different from the default, as soon as you navigate to a different screen, the setting is lost, r...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

IBM i agent to collect CL tracing information (iDoctor light) 

A customer , iDoctor user; would like to have a consolidated view of the IBM i agent tracing info and ILE tracing. Currently , the solution is to identify a job/program with Instana and use a PEX trace /JW collection to drill down and investigate....
10 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Extend Turbo's parking/suspending capabilities to on-premises VMs

Extend Turbo's parking/suspending functionality to VMs in vmware/hyper-v enviornments. For all the same reasons Turbo supports parking VMs in the cloud, Turbo should extend this functionality to on-prem workloads. By turning off idle resources, Tu...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Add more volume policies operational constraints

With the growing popularity of AWS GP3 and Azure SSD v2 disks, customers are now migrating and new requirements are emerging, such as ensuring that a specific group of volumes does not fall below 4,000 IOPS or 600 MBps of throughput, for example, ...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration