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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Add cluster data to Turbo Plans

Currently the plans in Turbo show host level. I would benefit from seeing cluster level information in the plans.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration

Having real names against usernames

Minor thing .. when creating a user on the appliance, any chance extra fields for that users real name, department and contact details ?
23 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Visibility of sensitive data

From the transactional portal of a client that performs a query to the iSeries and is displayed in Instana, from the “analytics” functionality some sensitive data is evidenced that must be filtered. It was detected that from a call to the database...
about 1 month ago in Instana / .NET 1 Planned for future release

IBM SevOne NMS Alert Dashboard needs to display the Metadata column

The end-customers wants to display the Metadata field at the same time when he sees a problematic Object or Device on the Alert Dashboard (because there are fields such as the unit used and the contact person in the Metadata) The end-customer want...
11 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 5 Future consideration

Parking actions support for On-Prem VMs & DB resources

Enable Manual & AI driven Parking actions support for On-Prem VMs & DB resources
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 3 Planned for future release

Support CISCO Intersight as Target

CISCO is moving customer away from the legacy UCS Manager solution to their InterSight solution. We no longer have access to UCS Manager in our new UCS environment. So, we will need Turbonomic to start supporting CISCO InterSight as a target in or...
12 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

Implement SCIM

Although Instana implements some SSO, it doesnt cover the full user lifecycle. We would like to see SCIM implemented so that users who fall out of scope of the SAML (in our case) application are also deleted in Instana. At the moment its a semi ma...
12 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Azure Savings Plan commitment planning

I would like to have the ability to create plans for Azure Savings Plan commitments based on my current workloads not covered by reserved instances that are running hourly pay go rates.
23 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Submitted

"Entity Information" widget should be sorted alphabetically

This widget has grown a lot over the years and for some objects now runs off the screen. As it does not seem to be sorted alphabetically, it can be difficult to navigate and does not provide a good user experience
23 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Planned for future release

IWS : Undo cancel pending operation

Once a cancel pending operation is executed, there is no way to undo this action.
24 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted