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Calendars

Our client requires: An intuitive UI for calendar management, enabling the organization of periods that define which user groups monitor specific resource types. For example, the calendar “Team nights and weekends DC1” includes two periods: ...
29 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release

Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Add hours to SLO Objective lenght

We have a KPI that monitors the login failures and we need to define a SLO between 8 AM and 10PM, but with the current length options we cant do that. If its possible we would like to have the option to select specific dates that reoccur every day...
4 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 1 Needs more information

when upgrading, we may not be able to upgrade as quickly as IBM releases (quarterly). We shuld be able to upgrade from a few revisions behind without having to do intermediate upgrades. i.e. 4.9 to 4.12 should be done in one step, not 4.9 to 4.10 to 4.11, etc.

will make it easier for environments who can't upgrade as quickly as ibm releases
16 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Quick search for Alert Viewer

1.6.x Alert Viewer search bar does not support multiple search conditions. For example, user's will sometimes want to search for events with server name = 'xyz' that have summary text = 'something happened'. As of today, the search bar only accept...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Under review

Postgres database synchronization with Cassandra Database to maintain sync between Primary NOI 1.6.x & Secondary NOI 1.6.x clusters automation policies.

Issue - Secondary cluster Postgres DB is not in sync with the cassandra database restored in secondary from primary cluster, causing the Primary & Secondary clusters event policies out of sync, showing 404-Error when launching the patterns on ...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Monitor managed Kafka services with remote JMX (e.g. with Amazon MSK)

There is no supported method in Instana at the moment to monitor/observe managed Kafka services on the public cloud providers, e.g. Amazon MSK. Instana needs a way to pull in metrics and traces from Amazon MSK using remote JMX: https://docs.aws.am...
9 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Instana SaaS on Azure

In Norway and Nordics Azure is the most used public cloud. Clients have committed spedn to Azure and would like to procure Instana as SaaS hosted in Azure. Ideally also to be able to purchase Instana SaaS through Azure Marketplace.
9 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Clicking on an html field in alert view opens the URL directly

Our customer needs an efficient way for opening a ServiceNow ticket from their ServiceNow html field in their custom CP4AIOps view. Currently, only using a mouse with special buttons (3rd middle button) or opening the custom menu, provide with the...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4