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Hot-Plugging Memory and CPUs on Virtual Machines (AHV)

Currently a reboot is required on virtual machines running on AHV to hot add resources. Nutanix allows hot add capabilities for CPU and Memory without a reboot natively. Turbonomic should be able to leverage the API and do the same without requiri...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Delivered

MSSQL Polling rate

Currently, the ability to control or set the polling rate in database sensors are available in DB2 and Oracle, but not MSSQL. The DB performance is impacted by having an aggressive polling rate, and we'd like to adjust it. This is causing high res...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Delivered

Allow staggering of high impact changes

Problem: App teams: "we cannot have these X number of vms down at the same time" Infra engineers: "we cannot support manual policy creation for each execution schedule for each set of X VMs to reboot in the same CHG window" Description: We have ma...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Delivered

Monitoring the number of Cassandra Tombstones

We have recently found that Cassandra (a component of CNEA/ASM) performance is degraded due to large number of Tombstones. However, we can only see the high number of tombstones in pod logs but not a metric we can monitor. If we can montior the co...
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Delivered

Monitoring Forked Processes in PHP

Description: We would like to propose the addition of functionality to monitor forked processes in PHP. Currently, there are monitoring tools available for PHP, but there is a lack of capability to monitor specifically forked processes. This is pa...
over 1 year ago in Instana / PHP 3 Delivered

current documentation implies that VCPU Resize Min threshold works in all cases

this caused consternation at the client - where several hours were wasted because of a lack of clarity about how this policy setting works. Current documentation is here,. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/tarm/8.12.2?topic=infrastructure-virtual-machin...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Delivered

Need ability to combine different entities in one threshold

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors several situations with Tivoli Monitoring that can't be replicated in Instana . They're considering for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of the analogs to what they use in ITM. B...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Allow ServiceNow integration test block to use different ServiceNow APIs

At this time, the ServiceNow Integration Test block uses the Scorecards API from ServiceNow in order to do it's testing. This requires the following roles to actually perform the test: snc_platform_rest_api_accessrest_api_explorerMaybe pa_viewer r...
about 1 year ago in Concert Workflows 0 Delivered

Dynatrace discovered standalone server hardware (bare metal server) metrics are being collected yet Turbonomic doesn't present that hardware in the UI either as a VM or Host.

As a unified interface for all infrastructures for On-Prem, Cloud, Storage, Network, and Applications, the only missing part of the unified view is the standalone hardware server. This could be a server box, blade, on bare metal with an operating ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 6 Delivered

Cloudability support for AWS & Azure China

Our company is using Cloudability globally to manage all public clouds except for AWS & Azure in China. We'd like to have consistent way to manage FinOps in our global estate. Can Cloudability start to ingest data from AWS & Azure China.
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Other / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 2 Delivered