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Data Insight Widget - Alert Profile (Addition to Alert Details and Alert Summary Widgets)

Most Monitoring Tools have a dedicated way to tell the end user what polices your device will trigger on. We are looking for a widget that would define all applicable policies to a device. This widget would require you to select a device variable,...
over 2 years ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) Future consideration

make ldap-configuration more customizable

For a NOI installation running on OCP with LDAP mode proxy, it is an absolute requirement that the users icpadmin and impactadmin must exist in the connected LDAP. The names of these users are not freely selectable, but must be exactly the same. T...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Planned for future release

Instana, ADDI, and IBM Z Application Discovery

Instana's Current Capabilities On Power Systems LPARs: Instana can effectively discover applications through agents installed on the operating system, identifying processes, services, and their dependencies. On IBM Z Systems: Full support for z/Li...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage Future consideration

Support for GCP PubSub in addition to Kafka on SevOne Data Publisher

We would like to make use of the performance data exposure using a message bus for northbound data transfer . It is much cheaper to use Google PubSub instead of a managed kafka instance . We would like IBM to develop an SDK/gRPC based PubSub conne...
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration

Enhance Host Process monitoring

We have identified several gaps in process monitoring capabilities when comparing IBM Instana with IBM Tivoli Monitoring. We would like to submit the following enhancement requests: Currently, process monitoring must be explicitly defined in the c...
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor Future consideration

Easy exporting of configuration such as ARs, VRs, Metrics, Detailed Views, Custom Fields, Jira Integration Javascript, Roles/Permissions

Right now for source control it is very time consuming to keep updating a git repo that we have for any updates to ARs, VRs, Metrics, Detailed Views, Custom Fields, Jira Integration Javascript, Roles/Permissions, etc. The only way to keep these up...
6 months ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export Submitted

Enhance Validation Rules with JavaScript Execution for Better Flexibility

As an ATP Targetprocess developer, I greatly appreciate the Targetprocess product for its robust features and customization options through automation rules, validation rules, metrics, and mashups. However, I have encountered challenges with the c...
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / User Experience Under review

Feature to change Instana metrics granularity / polling interval

There is a 1s granularity hard-coded in Instana. That is for example for host metrics and JVM etc. It would be great if we could increase the granularity at will in UI admin settings and at agent-level in configurations. For performance related re...
about 4 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor Not under consideration

Ability to share a report with a 'Microsoft Entra ID' group.

It will be usefull if we are able to share a report to a group of people based on 'Microsoft Entra ID' group. As a large company, we have systems that group people into groups and keep those groups up to date. Which is not the case at individuals ...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

Traceroute Path Tool in LiveMaps | Point-to-Point discovery

We already have a traceroute tool in NMS, which is hardly used. If using the tool in DI Live Maps, you could create logical devices in a path and see which hops between sevone and the device are part of your monitoring. The concept is you would ha...
over 2 years ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) Future consideration