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Improve the executed actions widget

The user experience of executed actions widget currently is poor. It should be completely revamped. Some ideas are: 1) Include the policy name which caused the action to be executed automatically. Right now it just says system. 2) When an action f...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Support MSSQL Local Windows Authentication with FQDN-based Certificates

Description: Today the Instana MSSQL sensor in local mode with Windows Authentication validates the server certificate against the machine’s hostname. This fails in environments where SQL Server is configured to issue certificates that contain onl...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Allow run cycles to schedule by weekday offsets

Currently monthly run cycles can be scheduled for "last day", "2nd to last day", etc. as well as "first day", "second day" and so forth. We have a requirement to run on the last 3 weekdays and the first 4 weekdays of a month. We're currently manag...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

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

Support for Simple Calculated Expressions Within Cloudability Dashboard Widgets

Currently, Cloudability dashboards allow users to display predefined values in widgets. However, it would be highly beneficial if users could define simple expressions or calculations directly within widget columns. For example: Calculating the di...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

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 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

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

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