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The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP

The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

I would like to request a policy change so that a new version number is assigned to the Instana agent with each BootStrap release.

There are cases where the version number of the Instana agent does not change even though the BootStrap included in the Instana agent has been updated. Because of this, when a bug is detected in BootStrap, it becomes impossible to identify which v...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

On IBM AIX, Instana should not count filecache (completely) as "used_memory"

AIX by default uses available memory as filecache (between limits set by parameters minperm% and maxperm%), usually up to 90% of the total memory size. When the applications use only a small portion of available memory, the remainder (or large par...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Provide full list of images used for each version of CP4AIOps

I am submitting this request on behalf of Bank of America. Every time IBM development delivers a new version of NOI or Cloud Pak for AIOps, BofA is required to download the images into their internal Artifactory to run security scans on those imag...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Native HA for the Self Hosted Instana Backend

In a self-hosted Instana backend setup, there is no native support for redundancy or high availability (HA), resulting in a single point of failure. This poses a risk to monitoring continuity in the event of a node or service outage. We kindly req...
4 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Future consideration

Monitor Windows Task Status

Instana should be able to Monitor the status of Windows task
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Monitoring Nutanix Kubernetes Platform

We need support for monitoring the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform. Nutanix was named a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure.
8 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Need support for these MQ metrics to migrate from ITCAM to Instana for CP4I

Metrics required to be visible in Instana that are currently available via ITCAM Inhibited Queue Count(PUT and GET) - Queue Remote Client Versions(Application Versions) - Channel Errors(AMQ) or FDCs - MQ errors Alter Date & Time - Channel Maxi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 4 Future consideration

Modify the time span between alert clearance and alert deletion and trigger policy when an alert is deleted

Background In the current IBM AIOps , alerts that reach the cleared state are automatically deleted after approximately 2 minutes.While this default behavior helps optimize database performance, it lacks flexibility for environments that require l...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

New type of policies that replace the Temporal Triggers in Netcool/OMNIBus

Background During the migration of Aggregation ObjectServer triggers from Netcool/OMNIbus to IBM AIOps, a critical gap has been identified. The existing temporal triggers in OMNIbus—which execute periodically after a defined time interval to evalu...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review