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Create a parking policy for PMC users not to start any VM more than 7 days in park my cloud

To avoid more uptime of the VM which is underutilization. If need user can revisit and extend the pause of the VM after 7 days.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1

Monitor UP condition to use "OR" logic to allow multiple distinct status codes

Add support for 'OR' logic on NS1 to monitor UP conditions. Currently, when multiple HTTP status codes are set (e.g., HTTP 200 and HTTP 404), the system requires all conditions to be met at the same time. This update would allow the monitor to be ...
4 months ago in NS1 Connect / RUM-based traffic steering (Pulsar) 0 Under review

Run report on Tags in NS1 Connect

Add capability to run scheduled reports on groups of zones/ records with a specific tag.
4 months ago in NS1 Connect / DNS Insights 0 Under review

Rightsizing recommendations for databricks

Offer recommendations to rightsize databricks and eliminate wasted spend.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Add the “Creation Date” dimension for snapshot analysis

I would like to kindly ask if it would be possible to add the “Creation Date” dimension for snapshot analysis. Including this dimension would provide us with a more detailed and accurate view of the data, enhancing the effectiveness of our analysis.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

OMNIbus SNMP Probe should support SNMPv3 SHA512 authentication type

Security is important for every customer and they want to use strong encryption modes. The SNMP probe is based on net-snmp 5.8 which supports SHA-512: http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/Strong_Authentication_or_Encryption Question: Authenticat...
over 2 years ago in AIOps Integrations 4 Future consideration

Increasing the largest selectable timeframe in dashboard more than 1 month

Hi, Is there any way to expand the timespan for more than one month? If not, this is a clear needs for all of our customers. BR
about 4 years ago in Instana / Metric Store / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Change the CIT Scanner installation path of the Agent on Windows machines

My customer has correctly installed an Agent 9.5.0.7 on a Windows 2016/2019 machine. After receiving error notifications for unavailable resource, they realized that the Scanner installed for the Agent had been deleted. Deepening the problem they ...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Native Instana agent collection of Nvidia DCGX telemetry and Nvidia appliances healthcheck

Following the guide on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-monitoring-gpu-public-preview we were able to bring some data into Instana using OpenTelemetry and prometheus format collection and processing of t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 2 Future consideration

Native DI HA Support

Out of the box HA support for Data Insight
11 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 2 Future consideration