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shielded .qcow2 image file for Data Insight complient with GCP provisioning requirements.

Customers are having deploying Data Insight in GCP environment. It seems a shielded .qcow2 image file for Data Insight is needed. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/about-shielded-vm?hl=en
3 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted

Clear All

When using the search bar in a table in Costing or Studio, to reset you need to clear out the filter. This is cumbersome if you have filtered on multiple columns. It would be great to have a global 'clear all' button to easily reset the table.
7 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Consistent sizing: Show group member(s) with highest utilization which determine size of the group

In Turbonomic UI you don't have a chance to easily identify the member of a consistent resizing group with the highest load which determines the VM size for the group. This becomes almost impossible when comparing VMs running on hosts with differe...

Container Platform Clusters - "Executed Actions - Succeded and Failed" widget with empty data

For Turbonomic, In the search -> Container Platform Clusters option, the "Executed Actions - Succeeded or Failed" widget doesn't display any data for a specific cluster. The customer opened a support case ticket (TS020249556) and the response f...
26 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

Native Instana Support for Oracle GoldenGate (On-Prem & OCI)

Oracle GoldenGate (OGG) is a mission-critical replication technology widely used in financial services, retail, and telco customers. Today, Instana does not have a native sensor for OGG, which forces customers to rely on custom scripts, Prometheus...
27 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

We would like to request an increase in the current limit (400) of Kafka Topics that can be displayed in the Instana UI.

The Instana UI currently has a limitation of displaying up to 400 Kafka Topics. However, in our production environment, we expect to configure more than 1,000 Topics. Since all of these Topics are important for our operations, it is necessary for ...
27 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Version field for Instances in Cloudability

Multiple tenants requested the OS Version field of the Instances as they will use the below combination of dimensions and metrics to create custom KPI's for reporting. This was already used with our previous tool and the lack of the OS Version inf...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Submitted

We want the ability to configure or override default retention period for Instana backend data dabases for traces/metrics data. For example: We want to store only 7 days of data, and free up EBS space on 8th day.

Hi Team, Current Installation Type: We have installed custom edition of Instana, and we have below datastores installed in our AWS EKS cluster. These backend datastores are using EBS volume. Day by day the data volumes are keep on increasing, and ...
17 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Request to Remove the 400-Topic Limit for Kafka Metrics Collection in Instana Agent

Currently, Instana Agent imposes a limit of 400 topics for Kafka metrics collection. We would like to kindly request that this restriction be relaxed or removed. In the system we are currently building, the number of topics is expected to reach ap...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Submitted

Turbonomic to support resource monitoring for IBM softwares delivered in virtual appliance form

IBM has a few software products that are delivered as virtual appliances. These services running in a VM deployed with a OVA template. Currently, Turbonomic evaluate them as a regular VM and may issue a resize actions based on the server metrics d...
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted