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Switching Monthly Conversion From 30-Day to Calendar Month

Turbonomic calculates monthly conversion using a 30-day period, but I want to check the conversion using calendar months like January, February, March, instead of the past 30 days. It would be helpful if, for example, the CostBreakdown could allow...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

Feature Enhancement Request: Turbonomic vCore Optimization Visibility

Proposed Enhancement Enhance the Turbonomic UI and reporting tools to include: vCore Delta Metrics Show the number of vCores added or removed per optimization action. Include timestamps and affected VM identifiers. Historical Tracking Maintain a l...
17 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Feature Enhancement Request: VM Extension-Based Filtering, Search, and Grouping

Benefits Operational Efficiency: Quickly identify and remediate VMs with missing or failed extensions. Compliance & Monitoring: Ensure all VMs meet required extension configurations. Automation Support: Enable scripting and automation based on...
17 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Support namespace label or annotation matching for shared costs

Within the Containers (Container Insights 2.0), I would like to be able to use a namespace label or annotation it outline shared costs. The current limit of 50 characters does not scale within a production grade environment and unfortinatley curre...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Support MSSQL Local Windows Authentication with FQDN-based Certificates

Description: Today the Instana MSSQL sensor in local mode with Windows Authentication validates the server certificate against the machine’s hostname. This fails in environments where SQL Server is configured to issue certificates that contain onl...
18 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Git proxy functionality on backend for agents in DMZs

Hi, When we install agents in production they are not allowed to connect to the internal Github to receive their configuration. Gitops is only possible if the requests could be routed through the backend. Any change in production also needs a long...
18 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Extend Cost Sharing functionality

Better Cost Sharing functionality multi-vendor. Cost Sharing in multiple Business Mappings but filtered in one view.
19 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Overlay graph with stacked bar in base layer and column in layer 1

Currently, the overlay chart doesn’t function as expected when selecting stacked in the base layer and column in layer 1, as it displays all three metrics as separate bars. It would be valuable to have a feature that supports stacking two metrics ...
19 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Cloning of Application Perspectives

We are in the process of creating Application Perspectives based on the namespaces in the cluster. Each cluster has 100's of namespaces and each namespaces has services ranging from 5-15. We are creating application perspectives at a service level...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Node Status

We have recently onboarding our Openshift Cluster to Instana for infra monitoring. Today we faced an issue where a node was not in Ready state and hence it generated a lot of incidents related to the Pods in that node. We managed to find the event...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted