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AIX processes reports "Started At" inaccurately.

AIX processes reports "Started At" inaccurately. If we restart Instana Agent it gets the time from the Instana agent restart as "Started At"
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Customer would like to show router redundancy per device in either a tab or a Network View

Customer is on ITNM 4.2 FP14 and would like to have the "show router redundancy" per device either in a tab or in a Network View.
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

Azure DDoS Protection event

A customer asked to add Azure DDoS Protection as an event in Instana. The use case is that is there is an DDOS attack and most traffic are blocked but not all. The traffic that gets through might cause some issues on the application and it would b...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add seasonality to Smart Alerts Error and Warning Log Blueprint

As an Instana user i need the functionality to alert on Error and Warn Logs with a daily or weekly seasonality. This is crucial for Smart Alerts on Logs where a certain percentage of an occuring log message is tollerated and it is not possible to ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Version Controlling in Omnibus WebGUI Filters and Views

We need to have a version controlling for the Omnibus WebGUI Filters and Views, so that we could track who is changing them. Also if we could implement version controlling like Netcool/Impact it will be easy enough for whole WebGUI.
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Provide typings for NodeJS @instana/collector package

It would be nice to have typings for IDE Intellisense and compile-time checks, as originally requested in https://github.com/instana/nodejs/pull/458. I believe that Typescript plays an increasingly important role in the NodeJS ecosystem with frame...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Node 1 Not under consideration

HMC Sensor - Add the HMC "release version" version to the product metrics

NOC agents must generate platform reports with the version to determine if there are changes. Currently, they cannot view through Instana UI and must contact the administrator of each HMC to obtain the version.
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

AWS Fargate agent for PHP Fargate Collector

Instana currently supports following Fargate Collectors https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-aws-fargate-agent. It would be nice if you can also add support for PHP language.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Request to add search box to search the filters/views in Event Dashboard/Filter Buidler/View Builder

We have 10k+ filters in our WebGUI environment. It's hard for us to search the filters while creating/editing Event Dashboard. We are looking for the search box to search filters/views while event dashboard creation/edition. And also looking for t...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Need to monitor existence of Dead Letter Queue by Instana Agent

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors existence of Dead Letter Queue in MQ with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM s...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 2 Functionality already exists