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PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...
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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Policies relating to a VM should always show under policies for an entity even if not active - ideally with the related schedule.

If I, a customer, attach a policy schedule to a policy (often by accident instead of an execution schedule) it is not easy to find. I am trying to understand the behaviour of a VM, so I got to that VM and look in the policies tab. I THINK that the...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

What’s needed: Root Cause Analysis is provided at the same time some delay is detected (applicable for Aurora MySQL & RDS).

[Ideal Analysis Function] What we’d like to request you is to add a function of analysis which is able to show the detection of some delay and its root cause at the same time (I.e. : root cause clarification at the same time of the delay detection...
10 months ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Customer (Senior VP @TELUS) has raised support request for https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/wireless/pgw-packet-data-network-gateway/index.html?dtid=osscdc000283

Senior VP request to support this device an ongoing AIOPS rollout. This could be critical to the success of the project https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/wireless/pgw-packet-data-network-gateway/index.html?dtid=osscdc000283
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

TWS Obsolete Jobs Removal

Hello Team, We are looking for removal TWS Obsolete Jobs from the Symphony Plan. We have observed that there jobs which are 6 months older are being carry forwarded daily in the next day Plan. This is causing load on the FINAL stream. I have updat...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

About adding available memory

In order to check the operation of the OS, please add the available memory calculated by the following formula. AvailableM=$(awk '/MemFree/{free=$2} /Buffers/{buff=$2} /^Cached/{cached=$2} /MemTotal/{total=$2} END {print ((free+buff+cached)*100)/t...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Not under consideration

PowerVC sensor

Instana already has the Openstack sensor. Although it can help to discover and observe part of PowerVC, the diagnostics of the PowerVC compute instances are missing and cannot be monitored. Also the pHMC sensor does not cover the same functionalit...
10 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1

Permissions - Configuration of Events, Alerts, Smart Alerts

We would like to prevent the user from deleting or disabling custom made Events, Alerts, Alert Channels made by other users and allow user to make their own.
10 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Alert 0 Future consideration

Context help on VM Policy Settings would really help customer understanding, and reduce calls to support.

I had to explain Memory Increase recommendations in detail last week - and a lot of the confusion was a lack of understanding of the scaling constraints. It would have been really helpful to drive home concepts with context help. Either the letter...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Future consideration

Stop count licenses for unsupported workloads

We have some workloads in Turbonomic that is not supported, like AWS Spot Instances and GCP Custom VMs. We still read and bring those workloads, but count them as a license consumption. We should not count them until fully GA of the feature and pr...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Not under consideration

Introducing analyze infrastructure (Open Beta Feature) to self hosted installation

As we upgraded our instana version we were looking forward for the analyze infrastructure feature, but sadly it is not available on self hosted configuration. this feature would help us analyze our use cases with more flexibility
10 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Functionality already exists