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Instana support for Grafana Private data source connect (PDC)

We have been working with the Instana product team and developers. We need the IBM-managed Grafana plugin to integrate with a Grafana private data source connect (PDC) agent. We need IBM to add the use of a Grafana private data source connect (PDC...
5 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Enable Accurate (Non-Bucket-Aligned) Data Retrieval Mode for Analytics and Custom Dashboards

We request the introduction of a configurable option in Instana to allow accurate data retrieval strictly aligned with user-defined time filters, without internal bucket alignment, rounding, or visualization-driven aggregation adjustments. Current...
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Additional Filtering Options on Endpoint /api/infrastructure-monitoring/catalog/metrics/{plugin}

We would like to have additional filtering options for use when retrieving results for specific Infrastructure custom metrics (e.g. Micrometer metrics to be found with Analyze/Infrastructure/JVM in the UI). At present, running a REST API request t...
5 months ago in Instana / API-C / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Helm Chart for Turbonomic depolyment

Current IBM supported deployment option for Turbonomic components is via manifest yaml. For platform teams that has an automated process (like Argo CD) in place for maintaining the softwares installed in a fleet of kubernetes clusters , current op...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Item Lock Feature - Stop all changes

I think it would be great if ATP had a feature that locked an item from changes. Meaning all automations, metrics, and/or edits stop on that item. Example Request item XXXX was closed and completed, a change in Metric would NOT update anything on ...
11 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

Support for Bing Maps Tile Metadata Usage in SevOne Data Insight Maps & Topology Widget

Currently for usage of Maps or Topology on a Map Background, a tile server which supports "{z}/{x}/{y}" format is required. Customers willing to use Bing Maps don't have the flexibility to do so. Adding a feature to handle the same will enable use...
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

LDAP multiple domains authentication

In current version Instana allow to configure only one LDAP connection.If domains are in tree in theory it should work:For example:aaa.com (points to first domain controller)Domain 1: xzy.aaa.com (first domain controller)Domain 2: 123.aaa.comDomai...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Alert Webhook "sent" verification

My customer had an incident where they did not think they were receiving Webhooks from SevOne trap Alerts in their PagerDuty system. In the end, the issue was a disabled usergroup in PagerDuty that was causing the issue and "hiding" the webhooks i...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Azure DB Non-Disruptive notice

Azure DBs scale actions states that the change is "Non-Disruptive", technically there is no downtime in that the database doesn't go down during the change, though there could be a connection drop and re-connect during the change. Following the Az...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Under review

For SevOne DI Network Performance Monitoring & Diagnostics views, create performance health score summary representations at the device and location level (i.e. Jitter, Latency, MoS, etc.)

Would create a Top level Executive, Engineering Capacity and Operational Management service health performance views based on provided locations/sites/devices
about 2 years ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration