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S3 scripting enhancement to allow index to be variable if the values of that variable is integer or another OID.

SNMP scripting documentation explains that "A variable cannot be used as an index number. The index number must be an actual number". Indeed, S3 fails if for example you try to get values of the last character of the string of variable length. Wit...
20 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Support HTTP Parameter Filtering in Adaptive Threshold for Smart Alerts

Currently, Instana Smart Alerts allow HTTP parameter filtering only in static threshold mode. However, dynamic thresholds — which offer adaptive baselining and anomaly detection — do not support filtering by HTTP parameters Proposal:Extend adaptiv...
20 days ago in Instana / Alert 4 Future consideration

Left Panel Tornado: option to filter on Favorites

When searching for a view in the left menu, it would be helpful to have a filter checkbox to narrow down the results to "Favorites".
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Future consideration

1yr performance graphs

Expand time range for the largest selectable timespan to one year in the user interface. This allows customer's operations team to see long term performance and capacity trends. The yearly graph should have 365 daily datapoints which will speed th...
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Allow Multiple Metadata Fields in Device/Object Group Membership Rule

As we are using Metadata fields to store device or object extra static data, we are facing challenge of only one metadata field can be used in Device/Object Group Membership Rule. Sometimes we can get by creating multiple rules to mimic 'OR' multi...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Enhancing the Turbonomic Action Center for Better User Visibility and Efficiency

The Current Action Center Tab in IBM Turbonomic provides valuable recommendations but users often face challenges in tracking the execution status , prioritizing actions and acting quickly on large volumes of recommendations . These enhancements a...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0

Dynamic Tag support for process environment variables in actions needed

Hi, We use Webhooks to trigger events in our central alerting console. The messages are then routed to the appropriate team/workflow based on tags which are delivered as environment variables with the process. Currently those environment variables...
21 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Under review

Overcome limitation on monitoring Kafka endpoints

Due to the fact that JVM stack traces are increasing the size of the data sent to back end, and raising our budget, we are configuring some Kafka topics to not being monitored. The problem is that there is a limitation on the number of topics to b...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0

Reducing data load by optimazing JVM StackTrace storage

Data load is ending into high costs for Instana customers, and probably for Instana itself. Analyzing the root cause of these big ammounts of data sent to the backend, we have realized that JVM's stack-traces are big chunks of data, which are main...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Continuously sending alerts (or expiring alerts) past a defined threshold to avoid overlooking.

We have encountered a critical operational challenge: When a single alert is triggered and then overlooked or ignored, there is currently no built-in capability within Instana to continuously resend or reissue that alert past a defined threshold o...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted