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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend

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AWS Plugin - Synthetic Indicators

As opposed to using REST API to create calculation poller data, we would be able to define expressions that use the pollable fields to create new AWS objects for metrics. (Examples of this can include In and Out metrics translated from their bits/...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Cloud 0 Future consideration

Add cluster data to Turbo Plans

Currently the plans in Turbo show host level. I would benefit from seeing cluster level information in the plans.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration

Bulk Create IAM Roles and add as Targets when adding a Master Billing account

Turbonomic supports ingesting AWS data from already created IAM Role/Users for specific AWS Accounts. This is great for 1 or 2 AWS accounts, but for customers who have 100s of AWS accounts, this can be very tedious. I am aware AWS allows their use...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Future consideration

Enable granular automation for databases

At current version, a Turbonomic admin can't choose the direction that a Database action can be executed. Even at Group creation, we don't have filters to pick just performance or Savings or if the Cost Impact is positive or negative (because some...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Transaction traceability using APPC architecture

This new functionality allows us to obtain and view complete traces of transactions sent from the distributed environment to the mainframe. The benefit is for all those clients who have a mainframe and still use this architecture as a means of c...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM Z 1 Under review

Parking actions support for On-Prem VMs & DB resources

Enable Manual & AI driven Parking actions support for On-Prem VMs & DB resources
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 3 Planned for future release

Need ACE OTEL traces to correlate to the proper ACE infrastructure

I'm working with a customer that has deployed ACE with OpenTelemetry tracing on traditional servers. When we diagnose problems and drill into the traces, the link from the trace to the Infrastructure links to the Host Agent for the ACE server. Thi...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Planned for future release

RHEL OVA Template Option

With the recent announcement of CentOS going EoL, the Turbonomic OVA Template is being delivered on Rocky Linux beginning with 8.12.02. Unlike CentOS, Rocky is not approved for US Federal and will require extensive testing. RHEL is already adopted...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Allow "patch" method to HTTP actions

When I try to create an HTTP action in Instana Automation feature, I can see the most common HTTP actions such as GET, POST, PUT and DELETE, but some APIs require the PATCH method, which represents a partial update https://developer.mozilla.org/en...
10 days ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

current documentation implies that VCPU Resize Min threshold works in all cases

this caused consternation at the client - where several hours were wasted because of a lack of clarity about how this policy setting works. Current documentation is here,. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/tarm/8.12.2?topic=infrastructure-virtual-machin...
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Submitted