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Expose System I/O Metrics for Alerting and Custom Events in Instana

Instana already shows System I/O metrics on the Host Dashboard (Calls/s, Reads/s, Writes/s, Logical Block Reads/Writes), but these metrics do not appear in the Metrics Selector when creating Custom Events or Alerting rules. We request that these e...
3 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Need ability to view which entities/processes/application/containers are consuming from the Pod's Mem/CPU Usage

Hi Team, Application is crashing due to increased memory. Want to view in Instana UI, where actual application memory and CPU is getting used. Example: Allocated memory for application is 6Gi, and 12 CPU. These usages want to see in instana UI Tha...
5 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Provide ability to read Prometheus Metrics with Bearer token

Hi Team, We are trying to retrieve prometheus metrics in instana UI which are authenticated with bearer token. We followed below configuration, but it's not working, let us know is any other changes required com.instana.plugin.prometheus: poll_rat...
5 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Create a shared folder space for multi-tenant reports.

There is an existing problem in SevOne DI versions >7.0 with multi-tenant reports in Global folders. If reports are placed here they can be seen by all customers across all tenancies. This can obviously cause confidentiality issues. The only ot...
14 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted

Need RBAC role for users that can act on alarms but not change filters/views

There needs to be granular control over roles to have users that can act on alarms but not change filters or views. This is a core requirement for enabling CP4AIOps as a shared service across different lines of business with different responsibili...
6 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Submitted

Ability to view logs after agent loss

It would be interesting to be able to view an agent's logs from the SaaS in order to analyze the reason for its loss. Currently, logs can only be viewed when the agent is reporting to the SaaS, but it would be good to be able to analyze the last m...
8 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Datalink Execution Prompt

While executing datalinks, it would be beneficial to include a confirmation prompt before executing datalinks to prevent accidental triggers that could compromise destination data.
about 3 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Add a gear icon so users can customize the columns they wish to see on the main Connector screen.

When Admins have to change the time period settings for new Fiscal Years, it would be helpful to quickly scan to locate the ones that post to the beginning of the FY rather than to current month or previous month. I've added "posts to CM" or "post...
about 6 hours ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Smart alert for log volumetry

Create a smart alert based on log volumetry. The idea is to have an alert before reaching the threshold of logs in context add on which is 1 TiB / month
about 7 hours ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Shorter Grace Period for SmartAlerts

Currently, the shortest configurable Grace Period in SmartAlerts is 10 min (a lot longer compared with Custom Events, which have a minimum lapse of 5 sec). We'd like to have shorter Grace Period options when configuring SmartAlerts (5s and up woul...
about 9 hours ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted