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Include feature "zone" or "label" on Serverless entity like AWS S3, fargate, etc

Customer will be able to group entities based on their own zone category. Everyone who monitor AWS resources (except host-based like EC2) will need this. Put "zone" in the configurable params ie for s3 (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observab...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Support multiple SMTP hosts

When Customer has s Separate SMTP hosts to send email to External and Internal email id, it is currently not possible to configure multiple SMTP IPs on the NMS. So he has to choose either of these(external or internal SMTP Host). This can be achie...
over 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Not under consideration

To customize HTTP Header for the native OAuth Provider.

For the API Connect native OAuth flow, after the completion of the authentication by AU/AZ server, API Connect will trigger an API call to the AU/AZ server to confirm the confirmation code. However, we found that the HTTP Header of the API is empt...
10 months ago in Instana / API-C / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't been set for the database. We would rather there be an error stating the configuration has not been setup instead of trying to login as root.

We have MySQL hosts and instrumented with Instana. However, when I click on the database in the available database, it is showing error: Access denied. Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't bee...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

logs when status maps are updated

Currently, logs are only recorded in the audit logs when maps are created, deleted, or renamed. However, there are no logs generated when the contents of status maps, such as nodes or paths, are updated. Implementing such logging would help identi...
11 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 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)
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Other 3 Future consideration

IBM i - DATAQ message capacity monitoring

An event is required to be triggered when a DATAQ is close to full capacity. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=services-data-queue-info-view
over 2 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 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...
almost 2 years ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Instana Metrics Sensor for Solace Message Broker on Docker

We have more than 30 Teams using the Message Broker Technology - Solace. Some of them are central data providers, which makes this Technology a critical component in the overall the company Service & technology landscape. Operating and Monitor...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Planned for future release

SevOne only has single Severity option for Custom Polling Policy

Need to adjust Severity for different thresholds within a policy. Example: >=70 Major, >=85 Critical.
almost 3 years ago in SevOne 2 Planned for future release