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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
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...

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Topology mapping of devices per OSPF areas

For troubleshooting purposes, we need ability to restrict displayed devices to specific OSPF areas. Currently, Resource type filter allows topology items but only for Object groups, not Device groups.
27 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

multi-tenency and multi-chatops channel support for Cloud Pak for AIOps

We have been discussing these topics with the WW AIOps team for some time now. Based on what I've heard, multi-tenancy and multi-ChatOps channel functionalities are part of the product backlog but do not have a specific timeline yet. As the client...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Custom polling rate for MSSQL sensor

Our MSSQL experts noticed that on MSSQL servers, some requests are executed by the agent every second. This is currently expected, as per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server....
5 days ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Submitted

For NOIHybrid Deployment SESSION_COIKIE_SAMESITE should be exposed in NOIHybrid yaml file

For Customer with NOI Hybrid Deployment if OCP and Webgui are on separate Domain, user has to manually set SESSION_COIKIE_SAMESITE = "None" in Environment variable in commom-ui-uiserver deployment. for Any reason id user reconfigures the NOI hybri...
5 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Consolidated device inventory report and ad hoc email feature

Currently sevone device inventory report is very limited with fields. Even though sevone have the data many of the device properties are unable to use it in report without additional customization. Suppose if a device kept in maintenance , we won'...
5 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

IBM SevOne NMS Alert Dashboard needs to display the Metadata column

The end-customers wants to display the Metadata field at the same time when he sees a problematic Object or Device on the Alert Dashboard (because there are fields such as the unit used and the contact person in the Metadata) The end-customer want...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 5 Future consideration

Publish version history for instana agent and k8sensor

When upgrading to a new version of the static instana agent we have no idea what changes there actually are in the new version. We would like to know what we're getting ourselves into, and to be able to chose whether to upgrade or not. Additionall...
20 days ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Submitted

Able to query IBM MQ Tags from the API

I'm able to query IBM MQ calls using the V2 API for traces: https://instana.github.io/openapi/#operation/getTraceDownload And I get details about the message but not from the IBM MQ Tags. The only way I can get those tags is using the UI and click...
20 days ago in Instana / API-C 1 Under review

Notification/ProgressBar during TokenTemplate Deletion

End user needs some sort of notification, when Token Template is being deleted. Even when there is some background action happening to remove the grouping against individual devices, end user has no clue of it. There should be log or notification,...
6 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

once should be select Parent event without child evnts selected automatically on Alerts Page

In 1.6.9 Event Manager, when ever user selects a parent event it automatically selects the child events. This make it impossible to see the Journal or take action on parent event in the alerts page. User will have to navigate back to the event vie...
6 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted