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PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...
PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...

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disable ingress/egress records when not available

In NetFlow, there is an option to disable this. Uncheck "Create Ingress/Egress Records when not available". I don't see the same option for sFlow.
about 21 hours ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

AWS VPC Flow Logs Collector

Customer have application running in AWS Cloud and would like to have visibility of all traffic within VPC of all servers including Kubernetes cluster
6 days ago in SevOne / Cloud 0 Future consideration

Add on new basic messaging protocol "MQTT" to NMS.

IOT is growing in the IT infrastructure monitoring and the end customer will hope he can consolidation monitor over all. MQTT is growing to IOT standard protocol and the other brands NMS have been added MQTT in their protocol. For example: Zabbix....
7 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Instana should allow to raise Events -> Alerts based upon log messages

Instana currently relies on metrics to create Events which can raise Alerts. Applications often have some known error codes or messages which refer to specific issues that may not be immediately evident by some of the metrics collected by the solu...
8 days ago in Instana / Alert / Logging 0 Future consideration

Improve stitching where single service is backed by multiple different workloads

Turbo should be able to handle stitching where single service is backed by multiple different workloads. Also define which workload in an SLO policy will scale. PM update: Will convert this to an improvement on how Turbonomic stitches Services to ...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

Add logs for webhooks for troubleshooting purposes

Hello, as for now, on SevOne the only way to know if a webhook is working or not is to test is from the webhook definition page. However, it can happen that after some time, the webhook fails due to some upgrade or because on the destination somet...
20 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

cEdge devices QoS Reporting to be enabled on SDWAN Health Dashboard for CCSDWAN customers

cEdge devices QoS Reporting to be enabled on SDWAN Health Dashboard for CCSDWAN customers
23 days ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 4 Future consideration

Way to calculate license usage of product with new IP address based licensing that excludes COC objects

Hi, with new IP addressing based licensing calculations we should calculate from device manager amount of IP addresses. There are also COC objects there in the listing which also have IP addresses. Requesting a way to exclude those COC objects so ...
23 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

able to have an option to change EUM reportingURL in snippet in the UI.

Currently in Instana K8s operator the AcceptorUrls seem to be solely based on the baseDomain. This is then used also in the UI in EUM Website Configuration in reportingUrl and script src, e.g.: <script> (function(s,t,a,n){s[t]||(s[t]=a,n=s[a...
27 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Custom Tagging(or Labeling) to Incident(Story) Title in Slack is required in order to reduce the burden of Developers

The SREs and Developers as AIOps Customer wish to reduce their burdens to check every alarm notified in Slack channel. The Incident Title sending to the Slack channel is almost the same so that it is very hard just to see the title in Slack and de...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration