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New cloud services support required in Workload Planning

Hi, as part of our workload planning use case, our project managers build estimates using WP for new projects, where we require support for additional services in step 2 (resource type) while adding a resource. (Regarding the services that are ver...
about 19 hours ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 0 Submitted

Workload Planning - more providers: OCI, Stackit

Currently in Apptio Workload planning, we only have AWS, Azure and GCP. Please consider implementing also OCI and Stackit to allow a comparison of cost of resources across more cloud providers
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 3 Future consideration

Instana support local monitoring For IBM DataPower Physical Appliance

Currently, Instana’s support for DataPower is limited to remote monitoring options for the DataPower Physical Appliance. However, our client is requesting local monitoring capabilities on the appliance itself. Since DataPower operates as a black b...
5 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Ability to recover a workload estimate (if deleted) in Workload Planning. 

Hi, the ask here is to have an ability to recover a workload estimate (if deleted) in Workload Planning. Or as an alternative, to have an archive option instead of just delete. Thanks
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 2 Future consideration

Compare an application with different zone / csp in WLP

The idea would be to take a tag / business mapping and all the resources linked to that application, push them into WLP and be able to compare the actual costs with the cost from different regions / CSP to evaluate where it would be the cheapest t...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 2 Future consideration

Ability to make placement decisions for heavy GPU workloads

Workload planning - is it able to do placement decisions for many GPU heavy instances? Current limit is 16 GPUs. Use Case: they have a cluster that has 200 H100s. We want to see best path to place to put this would be AWS in Region starting in X s...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 1 Not under consideration

Instana to monitor IBM DataPower Gateway Physical appliance to do end-to-end observability solution for IBM API solution.

My Clients in Thailand have applications expose service to consumers by API and using IBM solution that inclide [1] IBM DataPower Gateway  Physical appliance [2] APIConnect on CP4I . They plan to use Instana to do end-to-end observability but now...
over 1 year ago in Instana / DataPower 1 Not under consideration

Adding Front Side Protocol to monitoring by Instana IBM DataPower sensor

Instana provides monitoring of Multi-Protocol Gateway. But we need to know the status of Front Side Protocol eg. HTTP Handler of the Gateway. Knowing the status (up/down) is very important. Please see attachment.
7 months ago in Instana / DataPower 0 Future consideration

Adding the ability to filter IBM DataPower entities by IBM MQ v9+ objects

Dynamic focus query supports only filtering by appliance, cluster, domain or service objects. It would be useful to have the option to filter IBM MQ v9+ objects using name and status (see the idea INSTANA-I-3384), e.g., entity.ibmdatapower.qmv9.na...
9 months ago in Instana / DataPower 2 Future consideration

Adding status metrics for the IBM MQ v9+ object

The sensor for IBM Data Power and the object IBM MQ v9+ supports only Back-End Active Connections and Front-End Active Connections metrics. However it is important to know the status of the object because it has a tendency to shut down when IBM MQ...
9 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration