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Pacemaker Sensor

Pacemaker is essential to ensure true high availability (HA) of your services. Pacemaker Monitoring Objective:Monitor health of the cluster (nodes, quorum, resources, fencing)Measure health of the managed services (e.g. virtual IPs, web services, ...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

In Infrastructure Map, change the normal status color of zOS node boxes from Gray to White

In the infrastructure map, all normal nodes are in white, other than zOS nodes which are in gray color and appears to be inactive. We integrate OMEGAMON infrastructure metric at OS level only for zOS node, not other component. As for distributed n...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Refresh Forecast/Actuals/Estimate in CFP Plan without needed to create a new plan

When the base cost dimension changes, there is no way to update the forecast/Budget/actuals with that new information without creating a new plan.For instance, if the base dimensions are created from Account number and new accounts are created, yo...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0

Node Status

We have recently onboarding our Openshift Cluster to Instana for infra monitoring. Today we faced an issue where a node was not in Ready state and hence it generated a lot of incidents related to the Pods in that node. We managed to find the event...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Planned for future release

Increase Retention Time for Mobile App Beacons

We currently only have a history of 7 days which is not even covering an entire release cycle of 2 weeks. Ideally would be a data retention time of at least 4 weeks so we can compare data over a longer period and especially with the previous rollo...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Budgets Data Log

Currently we need to raise an incident to IBM in order to see who updated the Budgets and when as we as admins do not have that view. This is time consuming for IBM and for us and sometimes when we do bulk uploads that can lead to data loss and a ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Needs more information

Ability to create alerts on aggregated prometheus metrics values over multiple K8s pods

In the prom metrics business metrics are captured for which the sum/aggregation needs to be a potential value to be alerted on.
almost 5 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 2

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

Ability to customize starting month for pans

When we generate forecast using plans feature, we should be able to customize starting month for plans. This will help tracking our commitments with CSPs. For example - If we have a commitment with CSP starting from Sep-2025 for 2 years. I dont ne...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Under review

Ability to generate forecast in plans for up to 6 years

We have some long range commitments with Cloud Service Providers for next 5 years. For us to track that under plans, we will need to forecast for next 6 years starting from this year. But since the current plan feature allows for only up to 3 year...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Under review