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add support for MySQL Group Replication monitoring

Need to support mysql group monitoring by adding (for example) metrics like performance_schema.replication_group_members, replication_group_member_stats and so on. To this day, only source-replica metrics seem to be supported
1 day ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Support for OTEL RUM support

Support for OpenTelemetry RUM (Real User Monitoring)We do need solutions for monitoring real user experiences (RUM) using open standards. Naitive platform's capabilities. Requesting a roadmap regarding native support for OpenTelemetry (OTel) on th...
3 days ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Submitted

leaderboard/ranking view on the Optimization Dashboard

The FinOps team is exploring ways to improve user engagement and motivate users to take optimization actions. One of their requests is to add a leaderboard/ranking view to the Optimization Dashboard, leveraging the assigned user information and sa...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Add “Previous Calendar Month” as a Dynamic Default Reporting Period

Please add the ability to configure the default reporting period for a project or report as Previous Calendar Month. Currently, the default date selector can be configured to display the current open month, or it can be set to a specific hard-code...
about 24 hours ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Support .NET Applications in the Instana-Turbonomic Integration

I would like to propose adding .NET application support to the integration between IBM Instana and IBM Turbonomic. Currently, the Turbonomic Instana target documentation lists Java, Node.js, and Python as supported application types discovered fro...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

Enable secure SNMPv3-based subnet discovery in SevOne

Business requirement Customers using SNMPv3 need the ability to perform subnet-based discovery and onboard devices using SNMPv3 credentials. Currently, cluster-level discovery can use stored SNMPv2 community strings, but there is no equivalent mec...
1 day ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Enable Forecast Labour Uploads Without Access to Restricted Actuals

Enhancement request Currently, when Restricted Labour Actuals are enabled, users are required to have access to the sensitive/restricted labour columns in order to upload files into the Labour tab. This creates an issue for our forecasting process...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Functionality already exists

Support Cross Series Aggregation - SLO Infrastructure Count Metadata

We would like to request support for cross-series aggregation in Instana Infrastructure SLOs.The customer operates as a service provider (cloud services) and has contractual SLAs with its clients. The main requirement is to determine whether a mon...
about 1 month ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

Webhook option or capability for SDN Faults information on alerts to send SDN fault event to ServiceNow

Currently ServiceNow is our main ticketing system and there is no option for SDN fault to generate webhook to ServiceNow events to generate Incident ticketing
3 days ago in SevOne / Software Defined Networking (SDN) 2 Under review

How to monitor network usage rate for each host interface

【Background】On the Infrastructure screen, we would like to set up alert emails to be sent whenever either the received or transmitted values in the network interface section exceed a threshold. We attempted to configure this using Smart Alerts and...
5 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted