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Ignoring a proposed action for a certain period of time (hiding it from the Pending Action list for that period).

Turbonomic can generate many actions, but sometimes you may want to ignore a proposed action for a certain period of time after understanding its content. In such cases, it would be useful for operations if you could check the relevant action and ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 5 Planned for future release

Add SysLocation, SysContact and other string OIDs as Message Variables for alerts

As the title says, adding these standard OIDs as trigger messages would be very useful for alerting and management on the NMS for engineers and owners of the affected device to contact the team or person responsible of it.
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Synthetic POP support for the s390x architecture

In order to perform Synthetic Monitoring within Instana a Synthetic POP must be established. Unfortunately container images for Synthetic POP are only available for the x86 architecture. Our Instana environment is running on an OpenShift cluster t...
3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0

Pacemaker Sensor

Pacemaker is essential to ensure true high availability (HA) of your services. Pacemaker Monitoring Objective:Monitor health of the cluster (nodes, quorum, resources, fencing)Measure health of the managed services (e.g. virtual IPs, web services, ...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Parking feature support for ARO clusters

Parking feature support for ARO clusters: currently, it is only included in the roadmap for AKS clusters. Bradesco is one of the largest banks in Brazil, and Azure is their main cloud service provider, with many applications running on ARO clusters.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

Monitoring of Specific Local Network Port and Distant (reacheable port)

We request a Plugin that would basically check the status of a specified local port or a reacheable port from where the agent is residing. USE CASE #1 ( Local Port ) This would be usefull to validate the status of an application port . Sometimes a...
12 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Enable Synthetic Test Metric Collection for Custom Dashboards

Summary:We would like to request the ability to capture and store custom metrics gathered during the execution of synthetic tests in IBM Instana. These metrics, which can be extracted from SQL queries, API responses, or other synthetic test result...
12 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 5 Functionality already exists

Databricks support for Turbonomic

One of my clients requested to know references for resource optimization gains in Databricks solutions using Turbonomic.When researching, I found that at least two other large clients in Brazil made the same request. Is it possible to include Data...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Planned for future release

Need NGINX tracer libs for ARM

Dear colleagues, our customer has a lot of NGINX 1.18.x servers with PHP-FPM combined on ARM architecture. We successfully instrumented PHP-FPM but those calls are torn out of transactions because of NGINX and we didn't find Instana tracer libs fo...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 4

Requesting slicers be enhanced to cater for “single selection”

Currently we have a filter where have an option to select multiple values from the filter, but we would like to have single selection from the filter. So that we can see values only apply to the particular quarter.
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Needs more information