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Configuration option to preserve ifOperStatus data polled during ifLastChange updates

In the current implementation, SevOne discards all polled data for a given polling interval whenever it detects an update to ifLastChange. Although this behaviour is designed to maintain data consistency, it introduces a significant limitation for...
3 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Under review

Enabling and Monitoring IBM ACE Tracing for ISO 8583 TCP/IP Integration Servers

While IBM ACE delivers strong core integration and messaging capabilities, ISO 8583 TCP/IP transaction flows currently rely primarily on native logging and flow‑level diagnostics, which offer limited centralized observability and real‑time operati...
3 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Automatically onboard new OpenShift namespaces

When new application namespaces are created in OpenShift, an agent restart is required for them to be recognized before instrumentation activity will commence. In an OpenShift cluster with 47 nodes, agent restarts can be a disruptive operation. I ...
1 day ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Submitted

Retrieve resilience metrics through OpenTelemetry via Workflows

Our customer is currently using Dynatrace as their APM solution and is also investing in OpenTelemetry. They would like the resilience metrics collected through OpenTelemetry to be ingested into Concert.
2 days ago in Concert Workflows 0 Needs more information

Nutanix monitoring - Possibility to restrict monitoring of VMs

For Nutanix technology, customer is asking to have the possibility to enable monitoring for selected VMs only (like the implementation for Idea INSTANA-I-4349 regarding vSphere technology).
4 days ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Submitted

Add Instana instrumentation support for GeneXus HTTP client libraries (including Ron’s Http-Client)

Problem A customer application built with GeneXus is being monitored using Instana. The application performs outbound HTTP calls to backend services (Bantotal services) using the HTTP client implementation provided by the GeneXus runtime. During a...
18 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Update the NcKL rule library for Syslog

Update the library to enable the automatic normalization of any type of syslog message from Juniper or Cisco devices. Currently, the library is outdated, and the syslog messages the client is receiving are not being normalized according to this st...
9 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Default dimensions for Rightsizing Explorer

I would like to set my own personal preference for dimensions to default on Rightsizing Explorer. I seldom use region and OS on the explorer so I would prefer to not see them every time I open the Rightsizing page. This would be great to cache or ...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Variance Analysis on higher level in Apptio Planning

Variance Analysis functionality in IT Planning appears to be a very valuable feature from our perspective which can clearly improve efficiency and consistency. The main limitation we see at the moment is that the drivers can only be applied on cos...
2 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Support for Azure Deployments' new requirements

Our IBM SevOne VHD images for Azure deployments are no longer supported. We have lots of customers already on said platform and many new customers might need fresh deployments on newer releases. Per our documentation SevOne supports only Standard_...
2 days ago in SevOne / Cloud 0 Is a defect