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Azure HD Insight Monitoring Support

Now, Instana can't support HD Insight Service monitoring via Azure API. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/hdinsight/ Many customer have HD Insight usecase of IoT environment.
9 months ago in Instana / Azure 3

Filter Enhancement - ROI Rightsizing, Rightsizing - Upgrade Filters

Enhance filters for ROI tickets within the ROI Rightsizing module & from within report module. As a FinOps practitioner required to report on adoption rates & realized savings, I need to be able to: report on ROI tickets actioned during sp...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Cloudability RightSizing Snooze auditability

As a Cloudability Admin I'd like the RightSizing Snooze functionality improved from an Audibility perspective: - who instigated the snooze itself - when was the snooze enabled - add a comment field to explain the decision Bell provided feedback: T...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 2 Future consideration

Monitoring Oracle Database Locks

Monitoring an Oracle RAC on pluggable databases. Customer is able to see tracing details to the database cluster (not specific instance) but they are missing a very critical aspect to complete the database monitoring in oracle which is database lo...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

Workloads at Kirkland being seasonal, max observation period is needed to be 180 days

Kirkland would like to set the max observation period to 180 days from current max allowable 90 days.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

Enhance Alert and Incident query API to enable filtering in alignment with the User Interface

Enhance the existing Alert and Incident retrieval APIs to include additional filtering conditions Enable the API to query alerts and Incidents using the same set of filters as available in the UI. Get the count of alarms The current API has the fo...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Add COBOL tracing on distributed environments

The idea is to Add COBOL tracing on distributed(Linux/Windows) environments. Background: There are still many customers running critical COBOL applications, and monitoring these applications are vital. Currently, there are no Otel SDK/APIs for COB...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 9 Future consideration

Extend Turbo's parking/suspending capabilities to on-premises VMs

Extend Turbo's parking/suspending functionality to VMs in vmware/hyper-v enviornments. For all the same reasons Turbo supports parking VMs in the cloud, Turbo should extend this functionality to on-prem workloads. By turning off idle resources, Tu...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Add heat map widget charts

Heat maps can show a larger amount of data at one point for status and give an idea how big each area of concern is. They support understanding data density, trends and patterns in large data sets. Customers use this diagram type in other applicat...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release