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Possibility to cancel the export and download of reports

Hello, Enhance feature to cancel the preparation and download of a report to avoid the usage of resources and download large files to manage, when the filters were not properly selected. Thank you
2 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Capability for adding Targets in Google Cloud Platform - CloudSQL/BigTable etc

In the current versions of Turbonomic, there is no capability for finding Google Cloud Platform - Cloud SQL and other databases as targets. Its a high time as many of our customers are adopting to GCP.
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Submitted

Allow more flexibility in Instana-agent HelmChart

Hi IBM-Instana team, We use the instana-agent to monitor our services which are running in an air-gapped environment. We have a fully automated pipeline for mirroring images and HelmChart and for wrapping the HelmChart with our custom configuratio...
about 4 hours ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Display hot add memory and cpu information on Entity Information widget

Provide visibility on whether a VM has hot add enabled for CPU and MEM from the entity detail
about 14 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Submitted

Focus Option for Folders

I appreciate the improved search functionality and its clear results display. I frequently use it when concentrating on specific tasks and associated views. However, as a Targetprocess administrator, my left-hand menu becomes cluttered. Adding a "...
about 1 hour ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Submitted

Roadmaps without actual start date display

Our company creates high-level product roadmaps at the beginning of each year, using packages as a key component. Currently, the roadmap displays both planned and actual start dates for each package. While tracking deviations from the plan is valu...
about 1 hour ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Submitted

Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't been set for the database. We would rather there be an error stating the configuration has not been setup instead of trying to login as root.

We have MySQL hosts and instrumented with Instana. However, when I click on the database in the available database, it is showing error: Access denied. Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't bee...
about 14 hours ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

The NOI included OpenLDAP should allow authentication against a local repository as well to one or more remote LDAP repos in parallel

The NOI included OpenLDAP does only support standalone OR proxy mode, but not both in parallel. Common OpenLDAP implementations do allow this hybrid mode easily. Especially technical users like impactadmin are often not allowed in LDAP repos, only...
1 day ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Integrate Alibaba Cloud SAAS monitoring data collection

Many users use Alibaba Cloud SAAS or PAAS services, and we need to use Instana to integrate Alibaba Cloud related indicator data for alarm and AI analysis. IBM official development is required to integrate Alibaba Cloud service data.
1 day ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Submitted

In the 'Actions' tab, show the sum for the cost impact column for on-demand costs without factoring in savings plans

There was a change made around the first week of January 2025. A toggle of on-demand versus effective was added.We'd like to see what the on-demand savings are without any savings plan being a factor.Most of the cost impact are showing $0.00.FinOp...
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted