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Anomaly detection on issues

When an unusual amount of issues have occured (for an entity) it would be good to assure this boils up somehow. I.e. if CPU usage or memory exhaustion happens more frequently than usual (on a host) the user should be able to be informed pro-active...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Check Java version in prerequisite scanner

We recently updated one of our customers to ITNM FixPack 10. During preparation for the change, we checked the system requirements using the prerequisite scanner. Unfortunately, the prereq checker doesn't seem to check for the java version require...
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 3 Not under consideration

Built-in Event: Kubernetes Node condition status event correlation between kubernetes node scaling events

Once our cluster scales down, usually, our node/nodes will be terminated status(or unknown). But it doesn’t mean our nodes are not healthy. It just scales down. We are getting many mentioned event notifications, and our engineers are missing the a...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Implement SCIM

Although Instana implements some SSO, it doesnt cover the full user lifecycle. We would like to see SCIM implemented so that users who fall out of scope of the SAML (in our case) application are also deleted in Instana. At the moment its a semi ma...
7 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Support for Argo CD with BitBucket (Container Resizing)

Argo CD plus BitBucket is our container implementation operator and need Turbonomic implementation for OpenShift Kubernetes to be able talk to and update the BitBucket source of truth to support containerized workload, deployment configurations. I...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 5 Not under consideration

Customize Turbonomic reports with external data

I would like the ability to have the Turbonomic reports I generate use external data. For example, it would be nice if I could have data from our CMDB integrated into the reports I get from Turbo. I’d like to configure a connection from Turbo to o...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 4 Not under consideration

Hitachi Storage target support required for Turbonomic

We have received a request from IAG (Insurance Australia Group) to reinstate the support of monitoring Hitachi Storage through Turbonomic because it is IAG's core on-premise storage. IAG is in phase of adapting Turbonomic ARM across the organisati...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Not under consideration

Add alerting condition / Request Impact "Total Calls in Alert Scope" to smart alerts

Using smart alerts in Instana, we are currently able to define the absolute number of requests Impacted within the alerting condition (time threshold). See attachment 01 It is however in most cases much more relevant to set up a threshold for a to...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Filtering by Log Parameters in Analytics Tab

In the Analytics tab we would like for there to be a filtering option for log parameters. There is not currently an option to filter based off of log params only the messages and level. I have attached screenshots below
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 2 Not under consideration

Ability to create SmartAlert based of the executed Analyse query

When in unbounded analytics finding an "interesting" situation it would be practical to directly create a SmartAlert based on this to be alerted in case such situation arises again,
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration