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Cloud Pak for AIOps: Event suppression API for devices placed in maintenance and decommissioned through external tools

Event suppression workflow: Device placed in maintenance or decommissioned: Device placed in maintenance in external tool External tool workflow calls CP4Aiops REST API and passes the resource and time window (omit end-time if perpetual or unknown...
14 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Add the ability to specifically filter traces by values of "Self Time" /Network Time/ Waiting time

As stated in the title, having the possibility to group and filter by "Self Time" /Network Time/ Waiting time would be extremely helpful to troubleshoot if the network got worse etc.
14 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

AIOps should support display of pre-existing grouping

In the 25 years or so that Netcool has been around, there have been developed several means by which events can be correlated and grouped, not only by us, but by customers alike. It is obvious that rather than try and replace with AI/ML we should ...
14 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

System Capacity filter

Previously I can setup filesystem capacity event alert with "entity.host.filesystems.fs.name" filter under scope. Unfortunately this filter has been obsoleted and Instana introduced NO alternative solution to this. Instana support advised to confi...
15 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

IWS : Undo cancel pending operation

Once a cancel pending operation is executed, there is no way to undo this action.
29 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Compression Plugin allow for wild cards when identifying files for archive

It seems as of now you need to specifically identify each file you want to add to an archive when using the File Compression Plugin with Workload Schedulers. https://yourautomationhub.io/detail/compression We have many cases where the file has the...
16 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Instana running within an OCP cluster that has both Power and x86 worker nodes.

Customer is currently running Docker based Instana within a OCP cluster comprised of Power master and worker nodes. They plan to upgrade to OCP v4.16 when it's released in June/July and add x86 worker nodes. At that point their 2 OCP clusters will...
16 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server , we unable to install Instana agent locally due to restriction, we want to monitor from the remote server Currently no option to add host details # PostgreSQL#com.instana.plugin.postgresql:# user: ''# p...
16 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Implement SCIM

Although Instana implements some SSO, it doesnt cover the full user lifecycle. We would like to see SCIM implemented so that users who fall out of scope of the SAML (in our case) application are also deleted in Instana. At the moment its a semi ma...
18 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Uninstalling agent should remove all files and libraries

When uninstalling the Instana agent customer expect that everything related to the Instana agent should get removed. This is not the case for PHP monitoring. After you uninstall the agent there is still Instana files outside the agent folder that ...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted