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Trace proxy of kubernetes clusters

Hello Team, our customer use Rancher’s (K3s) nginx proxy to proxy requests to their applications. as soon as half of their calls come through applications outside of the cluster they see “unmonitored” source for many calls. The proxy pods are in k...
3 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Add support for Google ADK

Currently we are using Google ADK and LiteLLM but to get traces to the Instana backend we have to use OTel which limits observabiltiy and functionality. We would like to request Google ADK support so that tracing works "out of the box".
4 days ago in Instana / GenAI observability 0 Planned for future release

Predictive analysis for migration window when converting back from ST1 to GP volumes in AWS.

When executing Turbo scaling actions to move volumes for savings after peak production hours (ex, after 5pm), the time it takes AWS to complete the migration has little impact. However, when the reverse is true for move actions of volumes for perf...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Folder system for dashboards and reports

I would like to be able to create folders/groups for reports and dashboards to categorize my data. In Dashboards there is no system for this today and in Reports the only place new reports go to are "Custom". I'd like to have more flexibility and ...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Apptio Costing:::Data Quality Evaluations tied to detailed use cases from the Value Framework

A challenge when implementing Apptio Costing is knowing whether or not the data attributes you have available from your company's systems are sufficient to accomplish your goals in Apptio. It would be helpful to have a data quality assessment buil...
7 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Persistent Visibility for Recently Offline Hosts

Summary: When a host goes down in IBM Instana, an alert is generated, and the host is marked as Unmonitored in the Agent view and shown in red on the Infrastructure map. However, after approximately five minutes, the host disappears from both view...
11 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Ability to create alerts using K8s event

Instana offers the ability to create alerts and smart alerts from events, but the creation of alerts from Kubernetes events is not currently supported. The goal is to have this feature available so customers can set up alerts to track specific eve...
23 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

Enable API access to alert comments (journals) in Watson AIOps.

In our current migration from Netcool OMNIbus to Watson AIOps, we have identified the lack of an API to programmatically retrieve historical alert comments (journals). This capability is essential for audit purposes, operational traceability, and ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 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