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Add Effective Costs and Savings from Rightsizing to Apptio BI

Hi Team, Would you please consider to add Effective Costs and Savings from Rightsizing to Apptio BI? Right now, only on-demand is being displayed, as these costs are usually higher, they create wrong expectations within the organization. Thanks fo...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Increase days for retention for traces and calls

Currently Instana allows to keep the history of calls and traces for 7 days, however, due to business requirements and policies that the entity must comply with before other areas and governmental entities, Instana is requesting to extend this ret...
9 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

Generate alerts for Anomaly Detection at Account level

technical teams need to be able to monitor the anomalies for their accounts, but the current setting for alert is generating additional "noise"
7 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 2 Future consideration

Requesting to add "Day of week" to business mapping for rightsizing tables.

Working on creating a COIN Dashboard for each provider AWS, Azure and GCP. In order to calculate Non production and Production costs by weekday and weekend, we need to evaluate the daily cost from the rightsizing data to categorize accordingly.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Enable Events, Alerts, and Dashboards for OracleDB Custom Polling Metrics

Currently, Instana does not support creating Events, Alerts, or Custom Dashboards based on the OracleDB custom polling metrics documented here: Monitoring OracleDB. Several of our clients who use OracleDB have requested the ability to leverage the...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 1 Under review

Include- for Windows OS (Pagefile) utilization in your RAM sizing . Also in the Linux OS space (Swap usage) - "RAM sizing , stack-improvement"

When I review size down actions related to a VM running Windows OS / RAM usage I find that I disagree with some of those size down actions b/c they don't factor in Page file usage isn't factored into this decision . A hypothetical example of this ...

Built-in email notification target/workflows

Please implement a standard email notification target plus email workflows so that customers can easily implement an email notification for Turbonomic actions.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Future consideration

Support for IBM MQ on native IBM i Agent

IBM MQ sensor support on IBM I agent locally.
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Ability to see all processes on host infrastructure information

Oftentimes, it would be useful for the client to see the entire process list for a certain host, and not just the top process list.
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

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