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Integrate policy scheduling for on prem actions by scheduled maintenance windows

We had purchased a custom integration which was crafted by Ray Mileo and John Fabry which integrates scheduled maintenance windows in our turbonomic solution which creates policies based on configured maintenance windows / patching cycles of our W...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Needs more information

Add Alert Channels as scope option in Maintenance Windows

Context: Instana's Maintenance Windows feature offers, at the moment, either Application Perspective, Selected Entities (Dynamic Focus) or Synthetic Tests as scopes in order to generate silence windows. Problem: Maintenance Windows is the only fea...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Option to display the current CPU, Memory & Disk Utilization in the event message

We are unable to append the Current utilization values for infrastructure events, whereas the same option is available for the Application performance related alerts. It will be better to have the same for the Infrastructure alerts as the Admin te...
20 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement of Topology API to provide the "hostname" of the deleted/terminated resources.

NTT (Customer) is using our /events API to retrieve all events. The events API provides the snapshotId of the entity, such as a process. They want the host information for that process, and we suggested using the topology API (/api/infrastructure-...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Planned for future release

Support for instrumenting Gunicorn in python

At the moment when using gunicorn we have to manually instrument the application, which add some complexity in the Development process
9 months ago in Instana / Python 4 Planned for future release

Centralize Executed Actions between Turbonomic instances

If we want HA for any of the features that Turbonomic provides, our only option is to set up some sort of hot-warm configuration. With this configuration, actions are generated and performed locally only. If failovers have occurred in the past, it...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Future consideration

Configuration of Application Perspective spanning over multiple custom tag filter criteria in End-to-End view

Configuration of Application Perspective spanning over multiple custom tag filter criteria in End-to-End view We need urgently a way to build application perspective views based on discrete call tags that arise at various points in service hierarc...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Under review

Add an "at least" option to go up to maximum when scaling up and down to minimum when scaling down

Today, Turbonomic calculates the desired sizing of a VM and then generates an action to go there. Currently if there's a minimum set in a policy, Turbonomic could just discard the action if the Desired State is below the minimum and then not resiz...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Prevent merge policies to be automatically deleted when one scoped member of the policy (host, network, storage, etc) is deleted or removed.

When creating merge policies, if for example, a cluster merge policy contains hostCluster1, hostCluster2 and hostCluster3, and one of those hostCluster is removed from vCenter or from Turbo, the merge police gets automatically deleted, so the cust...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0

Host Agent sensor needs the ability to monitor files and directories

Host Agent sensor needs the ability to monitor files and directories. Want capabilities that are similar to ITM v6. Customers use this capability to indicate whether their applications are performing properly. For example, if there are too many fi...
9 months ago in Instana / Common 1