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add cluster mode enabled redis trace to redis sensor for rails application

support case Case number TS019348227
6 months ago in Instana / Ruby 2 Future consideration

Provide access to a sustainability emissions metric in KGCO2e

the existing emissions metric is in MTCO2e. In addition, data is shown in Apptio BI to a max of 2 decimal places. As the unit is large and the decimal precision is just 2 d.p. this means that for a lot of use cases emissions show as zero when they...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration

About Azure MySQL Lock

Is it possible to collect Azure MySQL Lock-related metrics and set up events? Assuming no, is there a roadmap for the future?
11 months ago in Instana / Azure 1 Future consideration

Add the Hours Idle field to VMs

The customer, HCSC, desires to create policies on cloud VMs based on how many hours they have been idle. Currently, IBM Turbonomic only supports the Hours Idle parameter for PaaS Synapse databases.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

At ALSAC we make extensive use of NetBrain to monitor our Network. It would be great if we could bring that data into Instana to add additional context to incidents.

Including data from the network domain would enable us to see relevant context if we have issues in our infrastructure. If we could achieve this we feel that we could resolve some of our incidents more quickly
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add ability to pause target reporting

We have a password that changes and it takes a number of days to reset. In the time it takes update the password the targets try too many times and locks the new password. If we can pause the discovery of the target with a pause button this would ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Future consideration

Alert Group Naming

Rather than use the summary of one of the grouped alerts allow the organization to use a combination of alert properties, resource name, highest priority for the group name. Adjust group priority dynamically based on the highest alert property.
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

The system importance needs to be idicated in the Infrastructure Map

In the infrastructure map, pillar hight is shown as the machine size (such as 4core small, 32core high)But for the operations of the systems, the machine size does not matter, but the business impact is important for us. Currently in the infrastru...
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration

Support for Azure SQL reserved capacity

Product doesn't currently support Azure SQL (PaaS) reserved capacity. This functionality is similar conceptually to Reserved Instances for VMs; however, it applies to SQL. Impact: Turbonomic will potentially create pending actions to scale a SQL d...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Add "Carryover data" option for defining custom Data Freshness Rule

As an Admin of TBM Studio, I'd like to define which of my custom Data Freshness Rules will allow for data to carry forward into future periods by adding a [Carryover data] toggle option on the Define New Data Freshness Rule dialog. This will allow...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration