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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

Schedule Datalink on multiple days in a month

More scheduling flexibility please. I'd like to be able to schedule on multiple days in a month e.g. days 1-20. Currently I'd have to create 20 schedules for this. If the monthly schedule function allowed you to select multiple days instead of one...
4 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 1 Submitted

Ability to do conditional formatting

Ability to do conditional formatting
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Better grouping capabilities, including the ability to group data by month

Better grouping capabilities, including the ability to group data by month
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Functionality already exists

Add Visibility for Oracle Database Blocking Sessions

Based on PMR TS019689541, we found that Instana currently hides the blocking sessions widget and shows no message when no Oracle database locks exist. This behavior makes it unclear whether blocking sessions are being monitored or simply absent. W...
4 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Under review

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

Add "Non-Disruptive" column to Action Center for On-Prem and Container actions

Today, in the Action Center for many Cloud scaling actions, we have a column highlighting whether the action is non-disruptive or not. This helps customers adopt Turbo's automation quicker, builds trust, and lowers the barriers to action execution...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 5 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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 9 Future consideration

Dropdown for label filters in Container

Currently in label filters, customer needs to type out the values, the request is to give a dropdown of options to choose from and to also enable multi select in a single go rather than having multiple filters which support one value per dimension
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Under review