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Display IP Address on Comparison Table

On comparison table, user can gather the overview condition of host utility, with hostname as its identifier. However, to validate and further troubleshoot the host condition, user will logon to the server by using IP address. Therefore knowing th...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Monitor subjobs

To be able to monitor subjobs. For example in the bank end of day process, the main job will have many subjobs. In this case the user of the subjobs can be the same with the user of the main jobs, but the jobName and jobNumber for the subjobs can ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Uninstalling agent should remove all files and libraries

When uninstalling the Instana agent customer expect that everything related to the Instana agent should get removed. This is not the case for PHP monitoring. After you uninstall the agent there is still Instana files outside the agent folder that ...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Provide Store and Forward Feature for Message Bus Gateway

Need the same capability as other Netcool/Omnibus gateways for the Message Bus Gateway to store and forward the event data when the targeted message bus is unavailable.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

User onboarding dialog requires selecting preferred timezone which is limited/outdated. Provide a means to customize.

We have customers in a wide variety of geos and tailoring to their needs is necessary and useful.
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

We need the Event for ACE Integration Node offline and should be able to generate separate Alerts for PROD and NON-PROD.

We tried with SystemRule "Offline Event Detection" and Dynamic Focus Query "entity.selfType: IntegrationNode". This is generating Event/Alert when any of the Integration Nodes is down. But we are looking for separate Event/Alert for PROD and NON-P...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Synthetic Alerts

Alerts that are defined within SevOne are restricted to the trigger conditions within that policy. The idea here is to be able to define synthetic alerts based on the presence or count of another alert (or multiple). The main requirement is for al...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Filter based on risk category and description

Please add support to be able to create a group based on risk category (and description if possible) so that I can build policies that are specific to different types of risk. For example, I would like to be able to create a group and policy that ...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Azure extension install & update

The only way to install and update the Instana Azure extension is my manuell clicking in the Azure webUI. This is not a scalable solution if you have hundreds of App Services. There should be a way to install och update the Instana Azure extension...
12 months ago in Instana / .NET 3 Planned for future release

Plan migration of cloud workloads back to on-premise datacenter.

Turbonomic allows us to plan a move of on-prem workloads to cloud (Azure), but we want the ability to plan moves of cloud workloads back on-prem. We are maintaining on-prem resources to allow for bringing our servers home, but need to make sure th...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration