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The DNS Plugin needs to monitor DNS-related metrics in SevOne NMS

The DNS plugin needs to monitor the following DNS-related metrics in SevOne NMS: Delegation SOA synchronization DNSSEC validity RRSIG expiry
2 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Submitted

Alert closure when an entity comes back Online

When a monitored entity goes offline (a failed process, JVM, application server, or any other monitored entity), Instana generates an alert. However, when the entity comes back online, a resolution event is never received. Instana considers the re...
1 day ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Capture and expose hourly and daily user metrics and usage for analysis and debugging

Provides visibility into user workload on system and components at a point in time. Can be used to debug observed performance degradation. Can also be used to provide management visibility into overall usage and adoption. Some example metrics:&nbs...
5 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Alert Ownership Locking and Conflict Prevention for Concurrent Users

Introduce an optional alert ownership locking and conflict-prevention mechanism to prevent multiple users from simultaneously taking ownership of the same alert without notification or coordination. Current Behavior During testing, the following b...
5 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Start using VolumeStalledIOCheck as a possible metric to calculate EBS availability (SLO)

To improve accuracy of created SLO rules for this service type, the VolumeStalledIOCheck is one of the possible additional metrics that can help on this case. "This alarm helps you monitor the IO performance of your Amazon EBS volumes. This check ...
15 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Multi-Filesystem alerts

We need to monitor multiple filesystems on a host using a single rule, while allowing a different threshold for each filesystem. Today, when creating an alert covering multiple filesystems, the webhook payload does not clearly identify: Which fil...
1 day ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Expected Middleware instance status derived from configuration

A host may contain one or more application servers (WebSphere, Liberty, Tomcat, JBoss), and all configured instances for each of them are expected to be running. Instana only creates entities when it detects them running and does not inspect middl...
1 day ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Add an option to disable workflow approvals for those of us not using the approval workflow.

We do not use the approval workflow in Planning.  In the old version of planning the alert icon on the banner pages showed up but did not display anything.  In the new version the icon is expanded with a description of how may cost objec...
7 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Submitted

Add fiscal calendar awareness to the Cloud File Egress connector in Datalink (DLF) so that "Previous Month" resolves to the correct fiscal period based on TBM project time settings.

Currently, the Cloud File Egress connector in Datalink resolves "Previous Month" using strict calendar month logic, without taking into account the TBM project's fiscal calendar configuration. For customers with non-standard fiscal years (e.g., Ju...
about 2 hours ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Smart alert configuration should support all tags include host tags that are configured in the host agent configuration

Tags are created at several instances and for different requirements. Not all tags are not available during smart alert configuration. Following is an example: com.instana.plugin.host: tags: - 'Environment:Prod' - 'App:TestServer'&n...
about 6 hours ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted