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Feature Request: Saved Time Ranges

We would like to request a new feature: the ability to save and name custom time ranges. Currently, when we investigate an incident, we have to manually re-select the exact time frame every time. It is also difficult to share this specific time wi...
13 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Change ACE autodiscovery to work for non-running processes

The autodiscovery for ACE currently works by looking for running ACE processes.Autodiscovery should discover all ACE installations, and all ACE entities (node, integration servers, message flows etc) whether or not they are running at the time. Al...
19 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 1 Under review

SMART Alert - Add new metrics to support monitoring JBoss Modules

I have a customer that has several JBoss servers, each one with many JBoss modules that need to have to be monitored.Today we have to create custom events one by one. So we'd like to request an improvement in the Smart Alerts to avoid creating tho...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Under review

Support BAW on CP4BA in Instana Business Monitoring

Currently, IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) running on Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) is not fully supported in Instana Business Monitoring.BPM calls from BAW are detected but not processed correctly — the bizops-writer does not c...
4 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Under review

Apptio:::All notification and subscription features should support slack

We currently do not natively support slack notifications, and users of Apptio products that are heavy slack users are required to manually configure slack notifications using API's and webhooks. This idea suggestion is to integrate Apptio's notifi...
13 days ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

Propose the creation of contextual menus within the Incident section of Watson AIOps to manage grouped incidents, similar to existing capabilities for individual alerts.

Currently, Watson AIOps allows specific actions to be executed through contextual menus within individual alerts. However, this capability does not exist in the Incident section, where multiple related alerts are grouped into a single incident. Th...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Functionality already exists

Conditionally Group Alerts into Topology Resource Groups

We need to be able to apply filters to received alerts to allow them to be conditionally associated with Resource Groups.Our Resource Groups align more closely with incident assignees and contain resources that can be considered "infrastructure" a...
8 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Need to recognise graceful shutdown of operating systems

Hello Team, we have a customer who is asking for the functionality of Instana to recognise if the restart was manual (graceful) or accidental like power outage, hangs, hardware malfunction. The information helps to reduce time SRE engineers spend ...
8 days ago in Instana / Node 0 Submitted

Request to Enable Retrieval and Display of Metrics Equivalent to Navigator for i

For users who integrate IBM i with other systems, relying solely on Navigator for i for IBM i operations is inefficient.Meanwhile, the metrics that can be retrieved via Instana for IBM i are fewer than those available through Navigator for i, whic...
22 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted