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sysLocation Field in Graph Tables

The customer would like to see / select sysLocation field inside the widgets - e.g. alerts details widget. Request: Add sys Location as an available field in report tables for more filter flexibility.
4 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted

Deploy and upgrade all the components in Instana Backend on Openshift with a single Operator

We need to simplify the upgrading and deploying procedure for INSTANA Backend on Openshift, A standard Openshift Operator could be the solution. It should allow to install the components and to upgrade it and the components as a standard Operator ...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Ability to create alerts using K8s event

Instana offers the ability to create alerts and smart alerts from events, but the creation of alerts from Kubernetes events is not currently supported. The goal is to have this feature available so customers can set up alerts to track specific eve...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Data retention configuration by size of disk-space

On Instana Standar Edition (On-Prem) the current data retention configuration is only by time (e.g. 7 days) - It would be much helpful if we can also configure by size of disk-space (e.g. 5Tb) as current feature is not very useful for customers wh...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Alert Severity - distribution by Policy ID.

The ability to show alerts and show a "distribution by device" is quite useful. However what is really required is to see a breakdown by Policy ID. This can then also be based on a Variable that allows Policy ID selection (i.e. dynamic filter as p...
5 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted

Variable option for Policy ID.

Whilst the widget provides options to filter on it requires permissions that not all users have as well as changing report behaviour if a user were to set. What is required is a variable that can be used to only show alerts matching one or more po...
5 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Submitted

Improved Global Report Linking rules

We love the report linking capability, however it has some limitations with the inability to create more complex rules. As an example for "Device Type" it only has includes but no excludes. Our use case is to exclude reports for certain types as t...
5 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted

IBM supported OpenTelemetry collector for Windows Platform

GlobeLife is a windows platform organization. All of their applications run in Windows platform. They want to send logs from applications both in-house developed or COTS to Instana for best use for analysis. Currently there is a LINUX OpenTelemetr...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Submitted

Support contains in the API for pod and other filters

Customer used =@ from https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial/cloudability-standard/saas?topic=api-getting-started-cloudability-v3 in the containers reporting but it is not working. Even this is not mentioned in: https://www.ibm.com/do...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Submitted