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Enhancement of Topology API to provide the "hostname" of the deleted/terminated resources.

NTT (Customer) is using our /events API to retrieve all events. The events API provides the snapshotId of the entity, such as a process. They want the host information for that process, and we suggested using the topology API (/api/infrastructure-...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Planned for future release

User-friendly feature needed: GUI-based preexisting setup/config clone to create new

AS-IS: each new custom setup (incl. observer job config, policy, etc.) we have to manual enter all para one by one. Desired TO-BE: ================= Target use case (NOT limit to, but same principle cross over): #1. Define > Integration (Incl. ...
24 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Support for ActiveMQ Artemis version up to 2.36.x

Hi team, Our customer MinFin from Belgium reported that they aren't able to monitor their ActiveMQ Artemis because their version is not supported, we support until 2.6.x Can you please add support up till latest version at the time of writing this...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

In the "Oracle RAC" configuration, we would like to be able to monitor without using "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname."

Instana's monitoring of "Oracle RAC" only supports "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname." Therefore, we would like to be able to monitor in the "Oracle RAC" configuration without using "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname." There are "Oracle RAC" configurations w...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

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,...
8 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Add "Cluster Tags" to VM group creation

Currently there is not a way to create VM groups based on its cluster tag. This feature would provide a great way to create dynamic groups based on something we can extract from vCenter from other use cases. For example, say I have a supercluster ...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Adding a feature to display Oracle metrics in Instana

The Oracle metrics that can be displayed in Instana are listed at the following URL: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-oracledb#metrics-collection Since "temp db" and "temp tablespace" are not ...
5 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Planned for future release

Need maturity in Custom Edition

We need to significantly improve the maturity of the Custom Edition offering. This includes: documented backup/restore procedures Sizing tool for HA configurations Tuning guidelines for the key components (datastores, filler, etc.). Ideally, auto-...
25 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Need improved scalability for Standard Edition

The 3 server configuration of Standard Edition has improved scalability. It is at the point where the number of MVS support will support a large number of our customers (2250 MVS). However, Standard Edition falls short when it comes to the scalabi...
25 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Integration > Dynatrace(DT) > events load: to-include associated ticket (DT# P-)info

AS-IS: ====== Integration > dynatrace > event load > post-load event: incident & alerts page > no dynatrace P- info found, P- is dynatrace side ticket# info. Note: current cloudpak seems to grab the events from {dynatrace-SAAS-...
25 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review