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Support for 'Dell Powerflex' & "NetApp Solifire' storage as Target in Turbonomic

We are planning to migrate our VMs (Vcenter) from solidfire to powerflex storage (storage vmotion only). This is a potential multi year long project of migrating PBs of data from one storage to other. We would to like to present TBN/Turbonomic as ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

Populate Resource Name dimension for Azure

The Resource Name dimension isn't populated for Azure. This is a key field, present in the CUR and should be made available in Cloudability. Without it, it is quite cumbersome to always rely on the Resource Id, which is a very long string. Coupled...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Under review

Perform periodic internal backups of all databases

We recently suffered some corruption of the Common Services Postgres database and found out that the pods themselves do not take any sort of backups to mitigate this situation. On a support call recently it was discovered that the Zen Database doe...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Enhanced Hover Interaction for "Roles and Permissions" and "Custom Fields" sections

Currently, in the Roles and Permissions and Custom Fields sections, the Edit and Delete icons are positioned on the far right of each field, making them difficult to click accurately especially when field names are short. This often results in use...
25 days ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Under review

Monitor WebSphere Application Server Thread Usage Percentage with Alerting and Exclusion Support

To further enhance operational visibility, we request an enhancement to monitor thread usage in WAS as a percentage metric with alerting capabilities. Specifically, we propose the following features: Monitor the number of free threads in each WebS...
25 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Business Mapping in IBM Turbonomic – Current Limitation and Needed Enhancement

Currently, in IBM Turbonomics, we can automatically create business mappings based on tag values only for Virtual Machines. I need this feature to also support and group other services such as storage, databases, and containers.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

GPFS Sensor

GPFS (Spectrum Scale) is an enterprise-grade solution for environments that require extremely high performance, scalability, and resilience.Its use is common in sectors where data access time and reliability are critical.Implementing monitoring an...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Ability to pull Network/Memory allocation metrics in Reports and Dashboards/ apptio BI

With the curent capability to build container reports with Utilizations or cost or usage metrics, it is imperative to have CPU/Memory/GPU Allocation metrics available as part of Reports/Dashboards or Apptio BI reports. to provide more clarity, a s...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Under review

Request for support of metrics/thresholds that are not available in Instana today for Linux (LZ)

An IBM customer moving away from ITM into the realm of Instana. They are looking for product enahncement to get all the metric/thresholds they are using to be available in Instana. See the list below for the supported metrics/thresholds that are n...
3 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 1 Under review

Enable User Impersonation Feature in TargetProcess

Current Limitation: TargetProcess does not currently offer a way for administrators to impersonate or assume the view of another user. This limits the ability to effectively troubleshoot user-specific issues or validate permission-based configurat...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review