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Need ability to configure retention period for Traces and Transactional data - Backend database

In Instana we have ability to configure retention period for metrics data and but not for Traces and Transactional data, I need the same flexibility to configure retention period for Traces and Transactional data as well. for example my clickhouse...
8 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Last Modified Date and Sorting

When you sort by name in Policies page, the sorting goes kaput when you go to the next page. Would be nice to have more than 75 as the number of items per page. I would like to get the Last Modified Date as one of the columns for sorting. Again, t...
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Database Server Max Observation Period set to 90 days

We have Max Observation Period of 90 days for Virtual Machine and Volume. We are expecting the same max 90 days observation period for Database Server too. Application Team wants to see the utilization through 90 days to decide on the scaling reco...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Adding selection of policies in order to create different plan scenarios

Would it be possible to create a menu similar to placement policies when performing a plan, but for automation policies. This way we can do something like this: Lets say we have two policies already created: Policy 1 -> I want to scale workload...
12 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Deploy and upgrade all the components in Instana Backend on Openshift with a single Operator

We need to simplify the upgrading and deploying procedure for INSTANA Backend on Openshift, A standard Openshift Operator could be the solution. It should allow to install the components and to upgrade it and the components as a standard Operator ...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Enable choose between savings/performance for Volume and Database policies

We can't choose at Volume or Database policies savings actions or performance actions. You need to execute everything or nothing. The customers sometimes choose to execute automatically only savings and vice versa.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Planned for future release

Create a parking policy for PMC users not to start any VM more than 7 days in park my cloud

To avoid more uptime of the VM which is underutilization. If need user can revisit and extend the pause of the VM after 7 days.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1

Provide minimal Helm charts for Instana Enterprise Operator and Instana Backend

Summary Our CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins) and artifact-mirroring process are Helm-centric. Today, Instana Enterprise/Backend requires copying individual images and using kubectl instana to render/apply manifests. We request official minimal Helm charts...
20 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Enhance the event table

Let's say i have 20+ IBMi systems all under the same zone.I have a filter within the Event page that only show me my IBMi Zone, and the table is really hard to read because:- "On" always shows the sensor name (which can be like Active jobs on..., ...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Indicate the specific policy that blocks an action to increase understanding and confidence about the actions

The Problem Lack of visibility into which policy is blocking an action generates several negative effects: Loss of operational traceabilityUsers don't know if the action was blocked by: A disabled automation policy A group with restricted scope A ...
11 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted