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Improvements to Infrastructure & Platforms charts in custom dashboard

I set the following conditions for any user. * For the group to which the user belongs, set host A in Infrastructure DFQ in Areas of Groups settings * In the widgets of Dashboard X published to this user, I selected Infrastructure & Platforms ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 6 Future consideration

Improved scoping on Host Unavailability Detection

As a user wanting to detect host unexpectedly going offline, I want to be able to filter the scope of this detector based on attributes beyond just host tags (e.g., to exclude a few of the worker pools from alerting using DFQ such as "entity.selfT...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

ITNCM worker failed to reconnect to DB

We would like a new timeout on the worker database connection so that the worker reconnects to the DB if the connection drops.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Not under consideration

renaming DB's

We love the new infrastructure view in instana and have been using the DB monitoring in particular. We've added 30+ db's and the information seems to be fine. Please see attached screenshots. The problem is that all of the db's in the list view cu...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Show amount of members in a stack

View the number of members of a stack in the display windowStackable switches (up to 8 members in a stack)2960X, 2960S, 2960XR of 2960 series3850 series3650 series9000 series #show switchSwitch/Stack Mac Address : H/W CurrentSwitch# Role Mac Addre...
almost 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Add possibility to analyze deployed version if different technologies

As Instana is capturing the currently deployed version of a software, we would like use this information in order to search for vulnerable and outdated versions (in addition to a source-based dependency analysis). We did try to analyze the deploye...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Not under consideration

Provide Similar ContainerD Container Name as the Docker Container Name (UI and API)

Dear Instana Team, as we recently switched our K8s Cluster from Docker to ConatinerD as runtime we noticed also a change of the view in Instana and at the connected systems (through Instana API). As we connected the data from Pods and Containers b...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Show docker container name in VM view

we are running some of our applications in docker containers. We would like to see the name of the running container within the instana "breadcrumb" view. In the VM View we have the same Problem. We can see a number of Redis instances, but we can ...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

CLOSE_WAIT status monitoring

We need Instana to monitor, alert and publish CLOSE_WAIT status for running processes on a host. It will be used for troubleshooting as well as proactive measure to avoid any potential outage.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

SmartModel support for Cisco Catalyst Rugged Series Routers (IR1800 & IR8300)

The existing NCM version lacks SmartModel driver support for Cisco Catalyst Rugged Series Routers (IR1800 & IR8300), resulting in the inability to perform backup/restore operations for a significant number of devices (200+). This limitation is...
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration