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Introduce a “Pause” and “Resume” functionality for Spark pools, similar to what exists for Dedicated SQL pools

Proposed Enhancement Introduce a “Pause” and “Resume” functionality for Spark pools, similar to what exists for Dedicated SQL pools. This would allow: Temporary suspension of compute resources without deleting the pool. Retention of configurations...
22 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Under review

Display ServiceNow Incident number for AIOps incidents in Incident View

It would be beneficial to the operations team to quickly check the corresponding ServiceNow incident numbers for AIOps incidents in Incident view. It would also help identify quickly if any AIOps incidents missed ServiceNow incident creation and t...
22 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Allow for Users to Remove Themselves as View Owners if there is another owner.

Currently, users who have been added as owners to views for trouble shooting purposes (like portfolio admins or other support staff) are unable to remove themselves from the same view. As a view owner, I need to be able to remove myself from any v...
22 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Future consideration

Should be able to see anomalies at business dimensions and tag level. Currently it is limited to Azure subscription group level.

Current anomalies are at subscription group level. We need to manually check which Application is causing the anomaly for each one of them by creating a report and doing further analysis which is time consuming. We should be able to have anomalies...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Agent restriction to SaaS Backend

In an Instana SaaS environment where application server owners can onboard agents to the backend: Mechanisms to restrict what agents are allowed to report to the SaaS backend. A process to detect and remove any rogue agents that have been onbo...
22 days ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

Support for Cluster Listeners in High Availability MSSQL Environments

Description: We are currently monitoring MSSQL database calls using Instana agents installed on both the machines making the calls (via .NET framework services) and the database servers. However, in our high availability (HA) environments, the dat...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 2 Planned for future release

Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters, Replication and realted metrics

An AlwaysOn Clusters view can help us to detect data synchronization issues, understand the behavior of availability groups, availability group state, node states, replication state, and identify cluster bottlenecks in SQL Server availability grou...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Add a policy to block VDIs or a method to clearly distinguish them

Turbonomic does not support scale actions for Azure VDIs, as documented. Based on the performance data and Azure Advisor Recommendations, I expected a scale-down for a VM. However, Turbonomic displays these VDIs as regular VMs in the Supply Chain ...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review

Create menu to admin agent in as400

Request for Enhancement: Local Installation of Instana Agent on AS400 The security department has identified a potential vulnerability in the way the Instana agent is currently started. Currently, the user is granted *ALLOBJ permissions to execute...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration