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monitoring multiple vCenters from a single Agent

Per documentation (www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/... you can deploy the agent on the vCenter itself or any agent of choice (linux/windows) on a remote system - the vCenter sensor is able to perform remote monitoring if installation on the vCenter is not...
over 4 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

DB2 - HADR_FLAGS metric to be Monitored and Alerted

Hi Team!According to Instana documentation, sounds "HADR_FLAGS" metric is not collected, correct ?So when a tablespaces is invalid or error state on the Standby database, the HADR_FLAGS field will displaythe value STANDBY_TABLESPACE_ERROR. Monitor...
about 3 years ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Utilization data for Azure and GCP via Reports in Appti BI.

Customer wants Utilization data for Azure and GCP via Reports in Apptio BI. As of now we were supporting a few products of AWS but not AZURE and GCP.
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Functionality already exists

Turbonomic - Add support for Postgres databases (via APM targets, maybe as direct target)

Postgres is the no. 4 in the database market following Oracle, MySQL and MSSQL and one of the fasted growing db engines Turbonomic currently does not support Postgres yet neither as target nor via APM tools. Please add support for Postgres databas...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 2 Future consideration

Customisable legend in AIOps Topology Viewer

Looking at the screenshot attached, we are using some custom background and border colors. Within the topology view, there is a legend, which explains to the users, what the icons and colors in a topology visualisation mean. Having a customisable ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Story(Incident) in UI should be able to suggest recommendation based on selected Alerts by Generative AI(WatsonX)

The Key use case of IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps, “AI Manager” is Proactive Incident Detect & Diagnose by leveraging AI(ML) technology. Story(Incident) in UI at current version, 3.7.x of AI Manager suggests top 3 Alerts which are related to ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Display App and Bean information for internal and RPC calls

Hi, from a detailed call page as shown is the screenshot App & Bean information are displayed for RPC calls but not for Web Logic internal calls. Could you please consider adding this information to internal calls too ? It will help us a lot w...
4 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Under review

Option to get alerts about the "Inactive" cluster(s) in the container insights section

Hi Team , Having Option to get alerts about the "Inactive" cluster(s) in the container insights section would really help, since the container insights data is real-time & once we lose it, we can't get the historical data. Missing this data wo...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 6 Needs more information

ARM support for IDOT

Please provide ARM support for IDOT. Instana agent already supports arm
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Future consideration

Need to be able to install and manage Standard Edition via sudo

Today, in order to install and manage Instana Standard Edition, you must login as root. Running commands via sudo does not work properly. Many customers do not allow users to log onto servers as root. All elevated permissions must be accessed via ...
7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration