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Convert "Smart Alert" into "Global Smart Alert" and vice versa

Sometimes Instana users own more than one application perspective. Suppose they already defined a smart alert on one ap and later want to apply the same configuration also on other ap(s). Then it would be helpful to have a button in the UI, that a...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration

Support for getting Logs through API

In Instana we are able to get all data from the API but the logs. We need to expose an API to extract logs. This would also help to extend retention of logs outside Instana.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

Agent for Kafka

It would be useful for our Company to be able to monitor Kafka leveraging the existing ITM infrastructure. As a second choice we would consider using the APM infrastructure
about 4 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Custom time period at top of page to apply to all widgets on page

I’d like the ability to add a custom date range on the top of a page (Dashboards, regular VM/Group pages, etc) so it propagates to all the widgets/graphs – similar to how the limited selections do now. When using Turbo to evaluate utilization or r...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Add option to DISABLE irreversible Cloud Volume Actions

We have an Urgent business case for Metlife to lower the Storage tier on VDI VMs that have been IDLE/powered off for 7+ days. When we generate the actions, if the VM was having high iops on SSD, we recommend resizing to HDD but also increase size ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Not under consideration

Add blacklisting functionality of certain events in the alert configuration.

We really like the possibility to be able to alert on event types. However sometimes, a particular event is not relevant for a specific team and we want to disable it. It would be much more easy in this case to disable certain events in the contex...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Request support for Oracle Fusion Middleware Versions - 12.2.1.2 and 12.2.1.4

Request to support Oracle Fusion Middleware 12.2.1.2 and 12.2.1.4 Currently tracing shows "Source not monitored by Instana" for 80% of the SOAP calls.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Java 3 Not under consideration

MQ Series Monitoring Agent: Include the RDQM (Replicated Data Queue Managers) support in ITCAM for Messaging agents.

The Monitoring team has been received a demand from MQ team about their new environment in the RDQM (Replicated Data Queue Managers). Usually the new environment is composed of 3 servers, with one service active and the others in stand-by. But, ...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Not under consideration

Insana Alerting - JS errors based on error rate while using multiple filter conditions

We are trying to do alerting for JS errors based on error rate as the metric is available within alerting scope, but it's not working as expected. When applying different filter expressions within our JS alerting scope, the error rate metric isn't...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Control the self-signed certs generated by Kubernetes for its internal inter-node communication

Kubernetes (k3s) using self-signed SSL certs is a vulnerability and against the security policies of some of our customers. Require a procedure for third-party signed certs to be applied instead of the self-signed certs. This is currently not supp...
about 2 years ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Not under consideration