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PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...
PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Review default resources for Instana standard

Dear Colleagues, we tried to install Standard Instana in production and demo modes on bare metal server in IBM Cloud and faced issues with logging to Instana backend: * TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):* OpenSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERRO...
4 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Need to check number of open files for Instana standard

Dear colleagues, We have a customer with Baremetal server for Instana who faced unexpected Instana behaviour after installing. The problem was that by default servers have default number of open files per user - 1024. It was hard to troubleshoot i...
4 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Support Akamai authentication NodeJS module

Akamai requires that you use their own NodeJS module for authenticating to use their APIs - https://techdocs.akamai.com/developer/docs/authenticate-with-edgegrid I'm requesting that the official Akamai module gets added to the supported third part...
7 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Planned for future release

Add VERSA objects for Upstream and Downstream capacity %

Unlike VIPTELA, up to this point VERSA has not provided Upstream/Downstream capacity %. This is now available: https://docs.versa-networks.com/Management_and_Orchestration/Versa_Analytics/Versa_Analytics_Log_Collector_Log_Types/WAN_Interface_Utili...
19 days ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 1 Under review

Have Turbonomic pull data from Infrastructure of Instana not Application Perspective

Have Turbonomic pull data from Infrastructure of Instana not Application Perspective. Since Instana views active VMs differently in the application perspective not all VMs show up and then does not populate to Turbonomic. But in Instana Infrastruc...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Instana DB oprator for power : Images should be pulled with digest and not tag

Background: In an OpenShift disconnection installation you have to configure the ImageContentSourcePolicy the way, that the original source path of the images are mapped to the mirror registry path where the image(s) have been uploaded to. By defa...
12 days ago in Instana / Automation 1 Submitted

Device Type Classification in SevOne REST API

My team owns IBM CP4AIOPS ASM observer that responsible for resource topology discovery. We do have an integration with SevOne, called SevOne Observer. At the moment. I have a request from StarHub and EastLink on the capability for AIOPs to classi...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 4 Future consideration

Support configurable duration for DFA and RSD Slope-based Policy Conditions

The current fixed duration for DFA and RSD is too short to include Triggering on longer persistent behavior, like low Slope (e.g., flatlining when not at 0% or 100% utilization) Supporting up to the standard 2-hour duration setting would improve t...
5 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Under review

Report "One-Shot" Mode.

Support a Report mode where each Section will populate once, and then not refresh when the user navigates between Sections, unless the user specifically requests a refresh, or edits the Report, requiring a refresh. The use case here is large Repor...
5 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

DI Report Section Navigation - Manage when section count overflows the browser/screen width

To avoid splitting related content into additional Reports, a more intuitive way to visually support more Report Sections than fit in the browser width is needed. Current "scroll-wheel" functionality is not intuitive and not portable among differe...
5 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration