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Be able to change work station type

To simplify transition for objects defined on extended agent to dynamic pool agent. To be able to change workstation type from extended agent to dynamic pool on the go for migrations purposes.
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhance the storage Limit of 64 kb for the alerts.status

After including analytics and runbook automation the amount of storage increase in the alerts.staus. We will change to Watson AIOps, but this is not possible the IBM internal fields use the bigest part of the hard limit of 64kB of the alerts.statu...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

At ALSAC we make extensive use of NetBrain to monitor our Network. It would be great if we could bring that data into Instana to add additional context to incidents.

Including data from the network domain would enable us to see relevant context if we have issues in our infrastructure. If we could achieve this we feel that we could resolve some of our incidents more quickly
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Instana Backend (zLinux, Power, x86, OCP, k8s) Custom Edition should be offered on Redhat, IBM, and AWS Operator Hubs for our customers.

The operators necessary for installing the Custom and Standard editions would be available on Redhat and IBM Operator hubs.
11 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Future consideration

Netcool SNMP Probe | SNMP v3 traps

A function in the snmp probe to disable function, that snmp v3 traps will be discarded if more than one source uses the same EngineID.
3 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Add CSP Report Endpoint

In order to maintain and improve the quality of the Content-Security-Policy we currently need to offer a self hosted solution for the CSP-Reports* To not have to implement a endpoint on ourself, where to send CSP Reports, an Endpoint provided by I...
3 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Security and Compliance 0 Future consideration

Allow greater control over "externalTaskTimeoutMin" API setting by action type

Every different action type has dramatically different timeout expectations. For example, a compute vmotion should have a relatively lower timeout (<45 min), whereas a storage vmotion should account for a longer timeout, with some taking severa...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Future consideration

Related Events: Do not suggest new groups covered by a deployed pattern

When new groups are discovered that match an existing pattern, they are not assigned to the existing pattern. This forces the users to move the pattern to new and then to deploy it again, so that new groups are assigned to the exsting pattern. The...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Metrics for Websites not stored for more than 7 days (historic data / representative sample)

Problem:------This is the case on the default Website Dashboard as well as for the Custom Instana Dashboards.When checking this in detail, we recognized no separate metrics and that the data is completely based on website (trace) data.Is this a bu...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

See Time Dimensions vertically along with other dimensions and values in a table

I create reports in TBM and would like to be able to build out reports with a Months column, a YearToDate metric column, and any additional dimensions and metrics.  To display the monthly values vertically, we would need the capability of tre...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration