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retrieve more than 5 infrastructure metrics from API

We want to retrieve infrastructure metrics through API "//api/infrastructure-monitoring/metrics", but it's result only has 5 metrics. It must request api many times if we want to retrieve whole metrics of infrastructure. So, I suggest to this api ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 1 Future consideration

SevOne NPM to use Kafka bus in SDWAN Nuage (Nokia)

Currently, NPM SevOne solution collector polls the Nuage, elastic search cluster to receive flows. However, as per the cluster grows it becomes more loaded. Therefore, taking longer to respond NPM SevOne collector. Nokia ES cluster is limited to &...
over 2 years ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 0 Not under consideration

To be able to convert strings from snmp OIDs to values for indicators.

To be able to convert strings from snmp OIDs to values for indicators.
over 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Planned for future release

Detecting When Devices are Unvailable and Be Notified

For example: If a device is via SNMP and ICMP not available/reachable, then it is most likely down (severity: critical). Otherwise, it is still up (severity: error). So that I can better distinguish whether a device is actually down
over 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Planned for future release

One problem, one entry on Issue page via Agent API

If I want to indicate to Instana there is somewhere a problem then there is a possibility to make a custom issue via Agent API (http://localhost:42699/com.instana.plugin.generic.event). We use this facility. There is a custom http(s) protocol moni...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / API-C 1 Functionality already exists

Provide trace duration in API response

Current API trace endpoint https://instana.github.io/openapi/#operation/getTrace does not return the overall duration of the given trace. The Instana UI however does show the overall duration of each trace. Would love to see that attribute also be...
over 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 0 Future consideration

Adding Functionalities to Instana to satisfy the needs of the future AI Data Center Networking base on Compute Express Link CXL Devices based on CXL 3.0 and CXl 4.0

Enabling Instana Networking for the future AI Data center based on the CXL 3.0 is built upon the IBM OpenCAPI, but CXL3 and CXL 4 have more speeds and will achieve the following: 1- Enabling the Interconnection between IBM LinuxONE and Exa scale A...
almost 3 years ago in SevOne 3 Not under consideration

API: Support EntityId->Host parameter in query to get all Snapshots of a single Host

Introduction: In an Enterprise Context, Instana contains valueable informations about running software on single machines or clusters, when an Agent is installed. With the current API it is hard to replicate UI functionalities, like showing all pr...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / API-C / Infrastructure 2 Functionality already exists

Release Notes / Changelog for API

I never find API related release notes/change logs anywhere. Please publish them with every new release, so that we can understand what has changed and how when updating our services.
about 3 years ago in Instana / API-C 0 Planned for future release

Historical reports on custom fields

Currently, the TargetProcess tool does not support history reporting on custom fields. We have a custom field on entities called "Blocked," and we would like to monitor the time an entity spends in the blocked state. This functionality is crucial ...
6 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review