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Enable choose between savings/performance for Volume and Database policies

We can't choose at Volume or Database policies savings actions or performance actions. You need to execute everything or nothing. The customers sometimes choose to execute automatically only savings and vice versa.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Planned for future release

That the Probe for Microsoft Graph Email is able to connect to office 365 using the OAut2 authentication and the Client Certificate argument.

We need to connect to office 365 services using a more secure method than ClientSecret, because the services are exposed to the Internet, and our client's security policies dictate that the only accepted method for authentication is through the us...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Need to be able to execute FIO benchmark test in air-gapped environment

Dear colleagues, our valuable customer ir running instana in air-gapped environment and experience performance issue, we would like to measure fio performance, but can't execute command stanctl bm fio  because it tries to install fio package ...
20 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1

OIDC Support

"The recent feature that allows key rotation and expiration is a great step forward, from an ideal place to be in the future, would be nice if it could also support OIDC to cloud providers (eg AWS)"
21 days ago in NS1 Connect / Managed DNS 1 Under review

Need a button on about page in concert workflow to get the active workflow list details

Requirement is to have a button on a about page where we can get the list of all active workflows and enabled job details. Details contain as per below 1) Flow name/Job name 2) Flow path/Job Path 3) Owner of the flow/job
21 days ago in Concert Workflows 0 Submitted

Add a combined VM memory utilization metric to UI widgets that displays VMEM utilization plus Transient Memory as a single effective memory-demand value.

Overview Add a new commodity or derived metric to IBM Turbonomic UI widgets that combines VMEM utilization and Transient Memory into a single value representing the VM’s effective memory demand. Today, the UI displays VMEM utilization and Transien...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Within DWC dynamic Workload Console can we have the filter that display's the number of criteria on the page to include "ALL"

This would list ALL the possible entries from the DWC query. Current settings are 10, 100 , 250 
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

File based monitoring to check if the file exists

Currently the file plugin in Instana agent does not have the capability to check if a file exist or not. For critical monitoring scenarios, it is important to check if a file exist or not and alert for production environment.
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Plan function, moving VMs from Vmware onprem to Openshift Virtualization

We have a Strategic customer (already Turbonomic customer) in Italy, with a strong deadline (end of 2026) to migrate Vmware -> RH openshift virt.
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Allow filter for "Invoice Date" within a "Dashboard"

This is useful for many reasons. Here is what prompted this idea request: 1. Cross-charge reconciliation - Applying "Invoice Date" as a filter to the entire dashboard will allow us to immediately reconcile invoiced costs for a given month. We can ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration