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Agent update from Instana dashboard

Dear colleagues, we have a customer who prefers manually trigger agent updates from Instana dashboard. At the moment we have a button "Update Agent" which works when Instana agent has access to the Internet. Many of our customer use Instana and mo...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Ability to remove specific agent type when installation was done with '-agent both' option

We currently have both FTA and DA installed on Windows/RHEL servers but we are transitioning the workload to only use DA. We would like to remove physically FTA from the environment but we are unable to do so when the '-agent both' parameter was u...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to specify any MDM (in multiple MDM environment) as a tdwbhostname value - not only the current active broker

In multiple MDM environment (for example 1 primary MDM and 2 backup MDMs), during dynamic agent installation process we are expected to pass the active broker details as a tdwbhostname value. This complicates the installations and automation as th...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Support for Fujitsu Symfoware JDBC Driver

We use Fujitsu Symfoware database on mission critical system. This is one of the core component in the system. Could you add the support for Fujitsu Symfoware JDBC driver. Based on the Fujitus document, Fujitsu Symfoware is based on the PostgreSQL...
2 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

We want to make a group of groups. Currently not possible

There are multiple business cases. ONE: A group of all the groups of prod servers that have been rightsized. And having that one group - enables the Turbonomic Tech Champion to keep an eye on them for performance issues. TWO: Group of Application...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Turbonomic support for Azure Local/Azure Stack HCI

Most Client are moving workloads to Azure stack HCI. it is integrate for Turbonomic to support Azure stacks to ensure Turbonomic value with clients
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Not under consideration

Custom events - Possibility to set up only during certain period of time

Hi, Nowadays there is not any possibility to create a custom event that could trigger an event only during time frame wished. Use case is clear. Imagine an integration that is only receiving calls during business hours. We could want to monitor if...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 5 Not under consideration

Have a method to script for a custom metric

Summary: Provide a custom metric method for the IBM Instana agent which a script (perl/java/sh/etc) could be hosted within the IBM Instana agent and would run at set intervals. The output would then be published to the backend on the node/server. ...
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4 Not under consideration

Add Cloud IP Management to Turbonomic

The client has shown a keen interest in Turbonomic being able to monitor and automate actions related to IPs in the Cloud. Following a recent discussion with their Cloud Provider, they learned that IP prices are slated to surge by fivefold. Conseq...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Not under consideration

Full integration with Green Pixie

Green Pixies GreenOps solution is fully integrated with Apptio A1 and can export from CLDY to run their emissions enrichment service, however, it would be most useful if there was full integration with Green Pixie within Cloudability in order to v...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Other / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Not under consideration