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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

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

Add RDS Customizations to Rightsizing Preferences Page

This would allow for the customization of what recommendations are being made for RDS, either by usage family, costs, etc
9 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Ability to create alerts on aggregated prometheus metrics values over multiple K8s pods

In the prom metrics business metrics are captured for which the sum/aggregation needs to be a potential value to be alerted on.
almost 5 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 2

In every list-based widget, show the number of rows visible vs the total rows in its data-set.

It's currently not possible to know how much data is in each widget. The metadata is the only that show page counts but, in that case, not how many rows per page.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Not under consideration

DI TopN Column Timespans Overwritten by Report Timespan + Add Rolling TopN Column Timespans

The TopN widget settings allow users to add multiple columns via the Timespan option under the Analyze tab. If this option is used to set columns in a widget, and then the Report Timespan option is used to set a custom timespan, it overwrites all ...
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

able to see Categories from Nutanix Acropolis

Be able to see Categories from Nutanix Acropolis so you can build groups via the categories
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration