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Instana Agent sensor to connect to the Openshift Monitoring Alert Manager, get the alarms and send them to Instana UI

Dear IBM, Right now in our Openshift clusters we have alarms generated by PrometheusRules and stored in the Alert Manager of the namespace openshift-monitoring. Those alarms only have visibility at the Openshift level and we would like to have the...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Add TopN Capacity widget using percentiles for Percentage-based metrics (interface utilization %, cpu %, etc.)

Capacity planners would like to review large numbers of interfaces, devices, etc. and base their capacity recommendations on the percentage of time devices are in various performance zones (e.g. in past week, these interfaces were above 90% utiliz...
10 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Need to enhance the AIX / LPAR monitoring as the basic monitoring is not sufficient to understand the performance problems.

After speaking to the IBM Power Sales team, existing AIX metrices are not sufficient even when enhanced with the IBM pHMC sensor metrices. The customers are relying on the vmstat/iostat/nmon commands to extract reports and do manual work of assess...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Allow for defining custom date and time formats. This should be globally or per tenant. Maybe have a few predefined formats to choose from. Maybe have ISO 8601 as the default. Let us choose the default time zone as UTC regardless of our local time zone. This should cover all places where a date and time is displayed - unless it came from an external source like in metadata. Maybe let a different format be chosen per widget if needed.

Having a consistent format across all tools would be very nice to have, so being able to define it in DI would help in that. Having everything default to UTC would be very nice since 100% of our reports are displayed in UTC and the SevOne cluster ...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Object Groups in the Metadata widget: Allow the source group to be a Class. Allow for a regex pattern to filter the object groups within the selected Class.

It would allow the widget to display object groups that were dynamically added. It would allow more control over which groups get displayed.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

At the top of each Performance Metrics widget, have a toggle button for every feature that is enable from the Analyze widget settings tab.

A widget with many indicator rows requires clicking on each row to disable or enable them in the view. It would be nice to, with one click, be able to just turn on or off all baselines, time-over time, percentile, trend, etc.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Monitoring Virtual Target Device Span (VTD Span) on VIOs with Instana

With Instana IQM bundle, the customer would like to monitor if VTD (Virtual Target Disk) is mapped to Multiple Disks on VIOs. With the PMR TS019458836, IBM informed the customer that with current versions of Instana IQM bundle, it is not possible ...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 0 Under review

Add API calls to Data Insight or a way to modify user roles and permissions programatically

The NMS has extensive and exhaustive user management tools using SOA. There is no such counterpart to Data Insight, which also has its own set of access, roles, permissions and lists to manage in production environments as the User Role or Permiss...
8 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Monitor subjobs

To be able to monitor subjobs. For example in the bank end of day process, the main job will have many subjobs. In this case the user of the subjobs can be the same with the user of the main jobs, but the jobName and jobNumber for the subjobs can ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 2 Future consideration

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.
about 2 years ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 2 Future consideration