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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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DWC to use session persistence configuration

DWC 9.5 currently doesn't support http session persistence even thought the WebSphere Liberty documentation said it does https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEQTP_liberty/com.ibm.websphere.wlp.doc/ae/twlp_admin_session_persistence.html
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Report for System Information regarding zCentric workstations in IWSz

For ABNAMRO client, that has hundreds of zCentric workstations, a periodic report is required for System Information regarding zCentric workstations. That is the information you can see in 5.5 dialogue in IWSz (ISPF) with the "I" line command. E.g...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Mutliple small Raw-Span PVCs instead of one large PVC

Answer: Use S3-comptabile object storage https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=openshift-api-reference#s3config for rawSpans to scale PVC limits We get the pvc from an external ceph cluster to openshift cluster. With 1000...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Not under consideration

Offering a "community edition" with certain limitations.

To sell the product as a Product Lead, it is necessary to adopt an SMB business approach of getting more users to try it first. In this case, as with many other SMB products, a license that is available for free use in the customer's environment i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

alerting on the dreaded "broadcast storm" scenario

as I am aware SevOne does not have a preferred way to alert on the dreaded "broadcast storm" scenario. This is how I have it configured within my deployment: Currently I monitor on broadcast storms in the following manner: -broadcast storm occurs ...
5 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration

SevOne NPM - Data Insight Reporting Handcuffed by Data Source

Cigna divides their SevOne monitoring by business unit so when creating an over all health report they are required to also to use three different widgets for each data source making it very difficult to understand the over all health of their inf...
5 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Updated Email Log

Sometimes there are email issues... An updated email log would be very helpful to SevOne admins. Just an email only log that easy to get to, look at, understand and no need to dig thru any other noise within the logs. I do understand that you get ...
5 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 1 Future consideration

NOI: - Development Request for API to Integrate NOI Event Analytics Pattern Pages with our external application Alarm Dictionary

Currently, our custom application/database, Alarm Dictionary, serves as the repository for all event analytics pattern names. To streamline the user experience and enhance functionality, we envision the integration of an API that would allow our a...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add seasonality to Smart Alerts Error and Warning Log Blueprint

As an Instana user i need the functionality to alert on Error and Warn Logs with a daily or weekly seasonality. This is crucial for Smart Alerts on Logs where a certain percentage of an occuring log message is tollerated and it is not possible to ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Need a "Hostname" field when using a Remote monitoring sensor

With many of the Instana sensors that do Remote Monitoring (MQ, MQ FTE, DB2, Oracle, etc.), there isn't a field that allows a customer to identify the hostname of the remotely monitored system. I'm working with a customer that it integrating Insta...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release