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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...

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...
20 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 ...
20 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Propose the creation of contextual menus within the Incident section of Watson AIOps to manage grouped incidents, similar to existing capabilities for individual alerts.

Currently, Watson AIOps allows specific actions to be executed through contextual menus within individual alerts. However, this capability does not exist in the Incident section, where multiple related alerts are grouped into a single incident. Th...
17 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Hide Out of the Box Reports from users

OOTB Reports are automatically imported and cannot be deleted from SevOne Data Insight and cannot be made personal to the admin user in order to hide them from any other user. The Customer do not have a use for these yet and would like to hide the...
6 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

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

Support for ElasticSearch v8.18 and higher

Currently, Instana Sensor supports until v8.17.1 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.299?topic=technologies-monitoring-elasticsearch#configuration. ElasticSearch has already moved to v9.x and Instana support for ElasticSearch has...
20 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted
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In GCP there are Flex CUDs that are used to reduce Ondemand costs on compute Resources. Turbonomic should discover and take Flex CUDs in consideration when rightsizing

This is useful as more clients on GCP are moving towards flex cuds and Turbonomic's rightsizing decisions need to take those into consideration to have trustworthy decisions on GCP compute resources.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Enable Events, Alerts, and Dashboards for OracleDB Custom Polling Metrics

Currently, Instana does not support creating Events, Alerts, or Custom Dashboards based on the OracleDB custom polling metrics documented here: Monitoring OracleDB. Several of our clients who use OracleDB have requested the ability to leverage the...
3 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

setup limits by default to t8c-operator

Telefónica customer is very sensitive to the security and stability of its systems.