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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 Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...

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Add possibility to group alerts by geographic location

We have many smart alerts per country both in the application and website perspective, it would be nice to be able to set a geographic location (editable or not). In our case it would be very useful to have a distribution by continents so as not t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

SAML Login to disabled account

With users disabled on NMS it forces MFA/SSO which works currently. However, the customer found out while deploying DI that DI fails with users disabled on the NMS.
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Instana console showing servers in offline state

There happend a case where a few servers had instana agent stopped running and they stopped showing up on the console infrastructure monitoring. There should be a way in the instana console where we can see the server being shown in the map or in ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration

IBM SevOne NPM TMForum API standard usage and adoption

Create a simpler System to System digital data communication or exchange and scalable integration based on the variety of TMForum APIs (i.e. 621, 639 or 642)
4 months ago in SevOne / Other 3 Future consideration

Search in EventViewer - CNEA

When searching for a device in EventViewer - IBM_Cloud_Analytics, it should display the entire grouping for which it is part of + individual alarms (Individual_Alarm.png + CEACorrelationDetail_Group.PNG). Currently it displays it, only if it is si...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Provide a means to automate creating NOI Incidents from Events in NOI - to be used for the customer for a consolidated view of thier issue with a easily added URL

Customer coming to NOI Dashboard with lot of events - can be overwhelmed and will not want to use the noise interface - while the consolidated view in the NOI Incident Module is consolidated to thier issue(s).
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Custom Event multiple conditions

This is a follow up to Aha Idea 729 which requested multiple conditions on a custom event. This is now available. However, it does not address our Use Cases, primarily as ita) It only allows multiple conditions on a single Entity typeb) only allow...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

DI Widget Concept - Quick Inventory Widgets - Chained Inventory Metrics

In Data Insight, the Metadata widget in its core function acts as a representation of inventory and asset data separate from the typical inter-based metrics that are gathered today. It would be beneficial to have an Inventory widget where you coul...
2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

[python-sensor] - Instrumentation

Please add support for the following python libraries: - stomp.py (Stomp QA) - aioamqp (AMQP) - zeep (SOAP) - spyne (SOAP Server) Currently they are not supported.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Python 3 Future consideration

Enhance the storage Limit of 64 kb for the alerts.status

After including analytics and runbook automation the amount of storage increase in the alerts.staus. We will change to Watson AIOps, but this is not possible the IBM internal fields use the bigest part of the hard limit of 64kB of the alerts.statu...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration