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Consistent sizing: Show group member(s) with highest utilization which determine size of the group

In Turbonomic UI you don't have a chance to easily identify the member of a consistent resizing group with the highest load which determines the VM size for the group. This becomes almost impossible when comparing VMs running on hosts with differe...
14 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Submitted

Consistent sizing: Allow consistent number of vCPUs instead of consistent CPU capacity in MHz

Customers are not using MHz or GHz when they are dealing with CPU capacity of VMs but vCPUs. Thus, for a user consistent resizing shall - at least as an option - result in the same number of vCPUs. For a user it’s really hard to understand if the ...
14 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Submitted

Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
25 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers 1 Submitted

Support for ElasticSearch v8.18 and higher

Currently, Instana Sensor supports until v8.17.1 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.299?topic=technologies-monitoring-elasticsearch#configuration. ElasticSearch has already moved to v9.x and Instana support for ElasticSearch has...
13 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Dynamic Tag support for process environment variables in actions needed

Hi, We use Webhooks to trigger events in our central alerting console. The messages are then routed to the appropriate team/workflow based on tags which are delivered as environment variables with the process. Currently those environment variables...
4 days ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

Request to Remove the 400-Topic Limit for Kafka Metrics Collection in Instana Agent

Currently, Instana Agent imposes a limit of 400 topics for Kafka metrics collection. We would like to kindly request that this restriction be relaxed or removed. In the system we are currently building, the number of topics is expected to reach ap...
26 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Submitted

Request for Kafka Partition-Level Metrics Collection in Instana

Currently, Instana does not provide the ability to collect Kafka metrics at the partition level. For example, it is not possible to monitor the backlog of messages for each partition. If such information cannot be obtained directly in Instana, it ...
26 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Need a way to see details of executed actions

We have fully automated load-balancing of VMWare ESX cluster ...ie. Turbonomic is instructing VMWare DRS to move VM around when needed. But there doesn't seems to be a way for us to look at details for executed Move actions. ie. what is the utiliz...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Need a way to export/download the PLAN report in PDF

We are using the PLAN every month and have to send the report to the customer, but currently there is no way to export/download the PLAN report. We end-up using the browser print function to save it to PDF but the formatting is all messy doing it ...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Enable configurable relationship types

Currently, a static list of possible relationship types exist as either Inbound or Outbound: Dependency, Blocker, Relation, Link or Duplicate. It would be value-add to allow removing relation types, renaming relation types, or adding relation type...
3 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Submitted

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