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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Data Insight Maps : Support for multiple data sources in the same Map.

Larger customers have their network performance data collected and stored using multiple NMS Clusters. It would be deeply beneficial to support adding nodes/paths to a DI Map that represent devices/objects managed across multiple NMS Clusters. Thi...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

No tags for empty vm specs

When we export App service plan Delete actions, We noticed that tags not appear, they're not there and would love to see them included. They only appear to be missing in Delete actions for VM spec.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Future consideration

DI Widget Concept - Quick Inventory Widgets - Chained Inventory Metrics

In Data Insight, the Metadata widget in its core function acts as a representation of inventory and asset data separate from the typical inter-based metrics that are gathered today. It would be beneficial to have an Inventory widget where you coul...
24 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Create baselines based of netflow data

The specific ask from the customer is the ability to learn normal behaviour (and alert when there is an anomaly) of the IP flows going through the network (source IP, dest IP and application). This is a specific use case, but it would be great if ...
5 months ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 0 Future consideration

Azure Services like Databricks, or AKS that create VMs should appear as a property in those VM entities.

With these properties being visible, Customer can create policies to exclude from policies VMs that are being managed by Azure Services. Customer can create UNPARKABLE collections based on Azure Services. Right now with 1000s of VMs, there is too ...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

easier Turbo Instance SSL certificate import - no manual edit of the YAML file

right now customers have to edit the yaml file with VI and a big cert file - loads of mistakes are made - and it's complex. and they need the right number of spaces - like 12 14 16. Vmware Vsphere client has an easy .cer file import process - this...
26 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Get list view of Application services by CPU/memory utilization using Custom Dashboard

We need to get top list of cpu or memory utilization by service /application name as it will help identify which particular application is consuming high cpu/memory . This will facilitate team to take quick action.
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Future consideration

Ability to set a Maximum Utilization Constraint for nodes in OCP/K8s clusters

As a customer, I need to be able to set a maximum utilization I don't want to pass for nodes, regarding the sum of all requests of all pods running there. Use case is: for production environment, I want to be sure to have enough capacity to retrie...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Future consideration

Allow users to change the pre-defined severity of a built-in event and allow to change the related metric thresholds

There is a bunch of built-in events, but in some cases users won't agree with the severity level of the events or the selected metric thresholds. Please allow users to change these in built-in events. Seems like something that should have been pos...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Extend Turbo's parking/suspending capabilities to on-premises VMs

Extend Turbo's parking/suspending functionality to VMs in vmware/hyper-v enviornments. For all the same reasons Turbo supports parking VMs in the cloud, Turbo should extend this functionality to on-prem workloads. By turning off idle resources, Tu...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration