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High Availability for the Cloud Service Agent

Currently the cloud service agent is a single point of failure. This idea is to advocate IBM looking to incorporate high availability throughout the full observability collection and monitoring stack. For instance, critical managed services may be...
4 days ago in Instana / Agent Functionality already exists

Allow Smart Alerts to train on historical metric data collected prior to alert creation

Problem Statement: Instana Smart Alerts based on adaptive thresholds require a fixed 14‑day training period starting from alert creation, regardless of how long the underlying entity has already been monitored. This creates a significant limitatio...
10 days ago in Instana / Alert Functionality already exists

In the Cluster Master, on the Peers tab, it would be nice to be able to save the column configuration you choose.

I have to move the columns around to see the object volume next to the peer names. I'll make device move changes and have to refresh to see the new amounts, but the columns always jump back to the way they were initially. It would be nice to save ...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Functionality already exists

Mask database queries

Hi, We encounter the problem that some database query's may not be visible for everyone.The monitoring is happening on application-side. An Instana agent on the database is not necessary. We have for example a Kubernetes cluster with 10 namespaces...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing Functionality already exists

Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
9 months ago in Instana / IBM i Functionality already exists

2 thresholds ( one warning and one critical) in the same alert configuration

i see that alerts can either be critical or warning and not both. So i would be beeter to have an option of both for a condition without need to create separate alerts for warnings and critical.
17 days ago in Instana / Azure Functionality already exists

custom querying option in the alerting/events section

it would be helpful if we could enter our own custom query as its difficult to map to the default options and we could enter any kind related to infra/logs etc.
18 days ago in Instana / Alert Functionality already exists

Request for Enhancement: Prevent Multiple Master Roles in IWS

In IWS automatic failover configurations, after a failure and subsequent recovery, there is a possibility that multiple MDM/BKM instances with master roles may run simultaneously (split brain). In evaluation environment, this situation caused a ba...
5 months ago in Workload Automation Functionality already exists

Add hours to SLO Objective lenght

We have a KPI that monitors the login failures and we need to define a SLO between 8 AM and 10PM, but with the current length options we cant do that. If its possible we would like to have the option to select specific dates that reoccur every day...
10 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) Functionality already exists

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor Functionality already exists