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Sync configuration between two Instana Backend instances

There is no tool available to download/upload the Standard Edition backend configuration - neither stanctl command nor UI option. Lack of such capability brings significant additional burden for operation teams running Instana self-hosted deployme...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Private/secured fields. Role-based permissions to view hidden fields, modify protected fields

Private/public fields. Hide financial and personal secret data in fields/custom fields/comments. Role-based permissions to view hidden fields and modify protected fields
over 12 years ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Planned for future release

Add privacy configuration option to collect full IP in mobile monitoring

Background and context Users IP are masked/anonymized by default in mobile monitoring (EUM/RUM) by setting the last octet of an IPv4 address to 0. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=monitoring-mobile-app-faq#are-you-an...
about 4 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 2 Not under consideration

Populate Savings Values for Parked VMs in Exports

When exporting the Executed Actions list, the "Savings" or "Impact" columns for Park actions are currently empty or null. While the UI may show the state of the VM, the financial impact of those parking actions is missing from the exported data. S...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Under review

Enable Instance ID Search in the "Park" Section

The "Park" section of the Turbonomic UI currently limits searches to the "Name" attribute. In many AWS/Azure environments, it is common to have multiple VMs with the same name (e.g., "Web-Server-Prod"), making it difficult to identify the specific...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Under review

Quick Add Improvements

It would be useful to be able to hide entities on the quick add menu and rearrange the order on the quick add menu. Some entities (Year Period, Demand, etc) will never be created manually, so we don't want it to show there.
8 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Future consideration

Improvement of the History Tab presentation

Dears, Reading and finding back information in any history tab can be come a nightmare when it comes to items with metrics & automation rules. We would find it more readable if the history can either be filtered or cut in section according to ...
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Future consideration

Add a policy to block VDIs or a method to clearly distinguish them

Turbonomic does not support scale actions for Azure VDIs, as documented. Based on the performance data and Azure Advisor Recommendations, I expected a scale-down for a VM. However, Turbonomic displays these VDIs as regular VMs in the Supply Chain ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Subcategories in credits to classify them and better understand these concepts when creating reports

The client would like to be able to subclassify credits in the same way, or in a more granular way, as seen in the console of their cloud providers. In this case, GCP. Currently, in Cloudability, we only classify them as credits or not.
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Submitted

Calendars

Our client requires: An intuitive UI for calendar management, enabling the organization of periods that define which user groups monitor specific resource types. For example, the calendar “Team nights and weekends DC1” includes two periods: ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review