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Request to Remove the 400-Topic Limit for Kafka Metrics Collection in Instana Agent

Currently, Instana Agent imposes a limit of 400 topics for Kafka metrics collection. We would like to kindly request that this restriction be relaxed or removed. In the system we are currently building, the number of topics is expected to reach ap...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Submitted

Request for Kafka Partition-Level Metrics Collection in Instana

Currently, Instana does not provide the ability to collect Kafka metrics at the partition level. For example, it is not possible to monitor the backlog of messages for each partition. If such information cannot be obtained directly in Instana, it ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Hide Out of the Box Reports from users

OOTB Reports are automatically imported and cannot be deleted from SevOne Data Insight and cannot be made personal to the admin user in order to hide them from any other user. The Customer do not have a use for these yet and would like to hide the...
8 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Enable Export of Logs Collected via OTEL Collector from Instana UI in File Formats

Currently, logs collected via the OTEL Collector cannot be exported from the Instana UI in formats such as CSV or XLSX. At present, it is possible to copy individual log messages using log links or by copying them to the clipboard. However, there ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

AWS Observer extension to include Role based authentication along with current local-user option.

AWS Observer extension to include Role based authentication along with current local-user option.
6 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

AWS Observer extension to cover Transit Gateways, Direct Connects and Direct -Connect Gateways.

AWS Observer extension to cover Transit Gateways, Direct Connects and Direct -Connect Gateways.
6 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

For certain v2 API endpoints - the payload does not appear to be logged anywhere on the NMS backend

In particular, this endpoint: /api/v2/users That is used to create new users. However, the payload of that is not logged anywhere on the NMS backend. The payload that has created user details can not be found in files like nginx access.log, /var/l...
4 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Is a defect

Reporting of Cloudability User Metrics for Administrators

As an Administrator of our Cloudability/ApptioBI system I have a requirement to report on my colleagues overall usage of your products to my management. Namely: Cloudability, ApptioBI, and (limited) TBM/Apptio One. This could be console access, vi...
23 days ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Add Usage Family/Usage type to Resource Inventory

We request adding a field of Usage Family or Usage type to each line in the resource inventory in order to be able to separate any storage cost for example from actual instance usage. This can help especially when constructing reports via API call...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Planned for future release

Enable choose between savings/performance for Volume and Database policies

We can't choose at Volume or Database policies savings actions or performance actions. You need to execute everything or nothing. The customers sometimes choose to execute automatically only savings and vice versa.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Under review