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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 ...

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...
4 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 ...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 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...
7 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Deploy and upgrade all the components in Instana Backend on Openshift with a single Operator

We need to simplify the upgrading and deploying procedure for INSTANA Backend on Openshift, A standard Openshift Operator could be the solution. It should allow to install the components and to upgrade it and the components as a standard Operator ...
20 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Add Usage Family/Usage type to Resource Inventory

We request adding a field of Usage Family or Usage type to each line in the resource inventory in order to be able to separate any storage cost for example from actual instance usage. This can help especially when constructing reports via API call...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Planned for future release

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...
19 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers 1 Submitted

Customize Tags OTEL on ACE

The way to parameterize through the server.conf.yaml, the OTEL TAG is required because we currently have the X-Remote-Addr attribute that travels in the HTTP Headers, but when activating the OTEL in the server.conf.yaml of the integration server i...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Under review

Auto Update for Cost Sharing Rules, when Namespaces are updated.

We would like to use the Cost Sharing Feature based on a Business Dimension to have an automated showback/chargeback process for shared costs in Accounts with Container setups. Therfore we use the feature to split gernal cost (which is not tied to...
42 minutes ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Instana Integration with performance test tool

Identification requests and calls from load tests to separate from another activities in order to facilitate the analysis
about 1 hour ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted