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Require DNC appliances to support much higher FPS than supported limit of 80KFPS on single appliance

DNC appliances are spec'd based on the Number of Interfaces and FPS (Flows Per Second). Different devices can be distributed to multiple NMS appliances (DNC's) for handling large FPS. However, how can the NMS monitor single devices that far exceed...
3 months ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 1 Needs more information

AD/LDAP Integration with Client's certificate for bind

LDAP integration (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.300?topic=configuration-configuring-ldap) accepts client's certificate for binding, additional to Bind DN and Password. It should be another configurable option.
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Monitor active jobs

There's a parameter inactiveJobs which checks for specific non-running jobs, but my customer would like to check also for specific running jobs, in the scenario where jobs are running that should not be running. We opened case TS018898330 and got ...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Option to evaluate Cost Impact without considering commitments (only based on-demand rate)

When scaling VM, Cost Impact is impacted by discount coverages. They may vary, especially Savings Plan allocation are unpredictible and Reservations behavior are also very complex to predict.Then it makes sense to determine the Cost Impact only us...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Replace VMware tools shutdown command with SevOne shutdown command for proper shutdown

All VMware customers, would mean one triggered from the vCenter interface will then properly shutdown the machine. /etc/vmware-tools/poweroff-vm-default/etc/vmware-tools/restart-vm-default
12 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Dark Mode

Instana needs a dark theme for the browser.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Planned for future release

To have a builtin integration to create/update Azure tags when a Turbonomic action is executed

To have a builtin integration to create/update Azure tags when a Turbonomic action is executed could avoid external developments.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

To have a builtin integration to unlock/lock Azure resource when a Turbonomic action is executed.

To have a builtin integration to unlock/lock Azure resource when a Turbonomic action is executed could avoid external developments.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Support to MongoDB Atlas (SaaS)

Hello ! Will be very helpful to a general context of our costs if Turbonomic add as possible target our MongDB Atlas in SaaS Today only have RDS AWS, SQLServer, MYSQL and Oracle Have MongoDB will give a full path and full information about costs a...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Future consideration

BigNumber widget in Custom Dashboard support a link icon.

Currently, App monitoring dashboard supports BigNumber widget with a link icon. However, BigNumber widget in Custom Dashboard does not. This issue be improved ASAP.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Automation 1 Future consideration