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Support for platforms such as Docker and Azure to deploy a PoP for synthetic monitoring

We are users of the Instana APM solution and have been trying out the Synthetic Monitoring feature to help ensure the performance and availability of our applications. However, we have found that the current implementation of this feature only sup...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Needs more information

negate condition in custom event definition or negate matching operator

In custom event definition it will be good to have negate condition (besides AND) or to have negate Matching Operator for certain metrics. ITM has a NE operator for this purpose.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

AWS EMR Cluster Support and handling

Turbo does not inherently recognize this particular type of device (EMR Cluster) as a “special handling” instance; in effect it sees a list of instances that can be optimized. Without scaling these devices concurrently/consistently, the cluster wi...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Future consideration

NcKL - Omnibus probe rules file support for IPv6

NcKL - Omnibus probe rulesdoes not support Ipv6 at the moment. Several entries like $MOI_Remote = extract($Message, "neighbor ([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+) ") are in rules files and needs to accept also Ipv6 addresses. Today more and more equip...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Excluding specific endpoints from monitoring

Instana agent discover and monitor all endpoints however some of them may be irrelevant,under maintenance or fixing progress. So it will be useful to disable/exclude specific endpoints from monitoring when needed. This feature may help us to monit...
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Fixed threshold for Metrics Anomalies

Metrics Processing currently works based on a dynamically measured baseline and alerting based on the various models. In the majority of scenarios, this will deliver positive business outcomes. It would be beneficial to also be able to set a "Fixe...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Excluding specific services from Application Perspective Scope

It is not possible to exclude some of the downstream calls(for ex:excluding only DB calls) from definition. Filtering feature does not support the necessity above, so we cannot define exact perspective.
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Needs more information

Custom dashboard queries shows misleading retention information in case of approximation

We have example in custom dashboard were some panels with complex queries show approximation because of retention where the real reason is query time-out. Although we believe this is a flaw we were asked to raise feature request. So please conside...
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 6 Under review

ITM 6.3.0.7 all service packs only allow keyfile.kdb for certificate usage. For automation reasons it would be very helpful to offer Microsoft Crypto Api and/or Windows keystore usage instead ITM keyfile.kdb.

Microsoft Crypto Api / Windows keystore are standards which would help to automate cerificate maintenance.
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

How to change the default domain name of the common-ui to a custom domain name

How to change the default domain name of the common-ui for watsonaiops event manager (netcool-<noi_instance_name>-clusterdomain) to a custom domain name like watsonaiops.stc.com.sa for example.
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0