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Need to enhance the AIX / LPAR monitoring as the basic monitoring is not sufficient to understand the performance problems.

After speaking to the IBM Power Sales team, existing AIX metrices are not sufficient even when enhanced with the IBM pHMC sensor metrices. The customers are relying on the vmstat/iostat/nmon commands to extract reports and do manual work of assess...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 2 Future consideration

COPA OA: Dashboard templates for common use cases for a specific technologies will be useful for better overview. 

Dashboard templates Dashboard templates for common use cases for a specific technologies will be useful for better overview. The standard out-of-box dashboards show a dump of all metrics. Curated dashboard templates for use cases that can be activ...
10 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 / User Interface 0 Future consideration

COPA OA: Flexible dashboarding for metric correlation needed

Need ability to study correlated metrics. For example, how is the CPU and disk usage behaving with user load? How is garbage collection affecting response times? Comparison of different metrics on the fly is available in ITCAM that is not availabl...
10 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 / User Interface 0 Future consideration

COPA OA: Thread details and termination for WebSphere threads (webcontainer, EJB calls) is required to troubleshoot long running workloads.

Thread details and termination for WebSphere threads (webcontainer, EJB calls) is required to troubleshoot long running workloads.Need the capability to generate thread dumps to view the current thread activity. This is useful for long running wor...
10 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 1 Needs more information

To be able to support DB2Connect

Get metrics (and traces if possible) from DB2Connect.
8 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Future consideration

Collect WebSphere PMI metrics in z/OS Instana host agent

The Instana host agent in Linux can collect WebSphere PMI metrics of the JDBC connection pool (PoolSize, WaitingThreadCount, UseTime, WaitTime, etc.). This function is missing in the z/OS host agent even with Omegamon integration. Customers requir...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / IBM Z 2

Change name of Apdex

Hi, We are using the apdex widget in the custom dashboards. Once the apdex is created, it's not possible anymore to change the name of the apdex. I understand that a clone is needed when changing the threshold or the scope. These configurations ar...
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 2 Future consideration

Add TopN Capacity widget using percentiles for Percentage-based metrics (interface utilization %, cpu %, etc.)

Capacity planners would like to review large numbers of interfaces, devices, etc. and base their capacity recommendations on the percentage of time devices are in various performance zones (e.g. in past week, these interfaces were above 90% utiliz...
10 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Allow for defining custom date and time formats. This should be globally or per tenant. Maybe have a few predefined formats to choose from. Maybe have ISO 8601 as the default. Let us choose the default time zone as UTC regardless of our local time zone. This should cover all places where a date and time is displayed - unless it came from an external source like in metadata. Maybe let a different format be chosen per widget if needed.

Having a consistent format across all tools would be very nice to have, so being able to define it in DI would help in that. Having everything default to UTC would be very nice since 100% of our reports are displayed in UTC and the SevOne cluster ...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

BigNumber widget in Custom Dashboard support a link icon.

Currently, App monitoring dashboard supports BigNumber widget with a link icon. However, BigNumber widget in Custom Dashboard does not. This issue be improved ASAP.
3 months ago in Instana / Automation 1 Future consideration