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Make additional attributes available for column customization and filtering

Being able to make additional elements and information available for sorting, export, and filtering would greatly enhance navigation and decision making in the platform. Options to display additional info. i.e. entity tags, account tags, etc. Near...
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Turbonomic Parking: Allow for a start date in future for parking

Currently, when you attach a schedule - it takes effect immediately. The idea would be to allow parking schedules to have a start and stop date - much like regular schedules.
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Request to Enable Retrieval and Display of Metrics Equivalent to Navigator for i

For users who integrate IBM i with other systems, relying solely on Navigator for i for IBM i operations is inefficient.Meanwhile, the metrics that can be retrieved via Instana for IBM i are fewer than those available through Navigator for i, whic...
5 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Data retention configuration by size of disk-space

On Instana Standar Edition (On-Prem) the current data retention configuration is only by time (e.g. 7 days) - It would be much helpful if we can also configure by size of disk-space (e.g. 5Tb) as current feature is not very useful for customers wh...
25 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

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...
3 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Under review
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In GCP there are Flex CUDs that are used to reduce Ondemand costs on compute Resources. Turbonomic should discover and take Flex CUDs in consideration when rightsizing

This is useful as more clients on GCP are moving towards flex cuds and Turbonomic's rightsizing decisions need to take those into consideration to have trustworthy decisions on GCP compute resources.
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Campanion operator support at pod level

Customer would like to have companion operator to manage workloaad at pod level. they use git and crossplane to deploy and manage workload.

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 ...
2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

IBM supported OpenTelemetry collector for Windows Platform

GlobeLife is a windows platform organization. All of their applications run in Windows platform. They want to send logs from applications both in-house developed or COTS to Instana for best use for analysis. Currently there is a LINUX OpenTelemetr...
30 days ago in Instana / Logging 1 Submitted

when upgrading, we may not be able to upgrade as quickly as IBM releases (quarterly). We shuld be able to upgrade from a few revisions behind without having to do intermediate upgrades. i.e. 4.9 to 4.12 should be done in one step, not 4.9 to 4.10 to 4.11, etc.

will make it easier for environments who can't upgrade as quickly as ibm releases
6 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review