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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 ...

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...
26 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

Workload Planning - more providers: OCI, Stackit

Currently in Apptio Workload planning, we only have AWS, Azure and GCP. Please consider implementing also OCI and Stackit to allow a comparison of cost of resources across more cloud providers
5 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 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...
27 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 ...
27 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 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...
5 days ago in Instana / Automation 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...
11 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 ...
11 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Flagging Promotional Credits in GCP as Promotional Credits instead of falling under the general bucket of credits

Customers like Ulta and others have millions of dollars in Promotional Credits each year. Currently Cloudability doesn't offer the option to flag these promotional credits as Promotional Credits, rather they fall under the general bucket of Credit...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted