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Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
24 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Add dimensions to Apptio BI to mirror info from Rightsizing

Add more dimensions regarding Rightsizing data source in Apptio BI. Currently we have situations where in Apptio BI reporting we have only current and recommended instance type but that is not what is being recommended to be changed: for example, ...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Correctly Calculate Parking Realized Savings

In the Executed Actions widget, the savings realized by suspend actions (as a consequence of a parking schedule) are incorrectly calculated. We downloaded the exported file and validated multiple cases. In the first place, it calculates the saving...
29 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Support filter dependencies at Dashboard level

When Execs look at a dashboard and want to drill down they may not know the structure of all the teams. Filter Dependencies should apply to dashboard level so that people can quickly delve down with out having to remember which teams are part of w...
14 days ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the event table

Let's say i have 20+ IBMi systems all under the same zone.I have a filter within the Event page that only show me my IBMi Zone, and the table is really hard to read because:- "On" always shows the sensor name (which can be like Active jobs on..., ...
22 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Change the MSGW filtering by excluding the jobs in MSGW without a reply needed

Customers might have a few (or more) jobs in MSGW that don't actually need a reply. When configuring the MSGW monitoring in the INSTANA configuration.yaml, you can only define status/subsystem, so everything in MSGW would be considered, generating...
22 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Turbonomic's parking functionality issue for Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) running Windows instances (non-Spot)

We are working with the ITAU customer who is experiencing performance issues with the parking functionality in Turbonomic for Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) running Windows instances (non-Spot).The issue is that Turbonomic's current parking behavior t...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review

Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Turbonomic - Spot VMs Parking Support

Itaú Bank operates a large number of Spot Instances in their DEV/QA environments. Previously, they used an AWS Lambda function to park both Spot and regular EC2 instances but we are now migrating this functionality to Turbonomic. However, the inab...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Entities Grouping based on tag

While the IBM platform currently supports tag creation for entities, the grouping functionality is limited to predefined categories such as accounts, applications, or container platforms. This idea proposes enhancing the grouping feature to allow ...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted