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Grafana Plugin for Monitoring Data

As we expose monitoring metrics related to a business services in Grafana dashboards we would like to add and compose a full service vision integrating also IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management ones
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Functionality already exists

"number of restarts" as timeseries metric for K8s sensor

The priority for The customer is to get rid of prometheus  and move those infra structure related alarms to Instana. One popular subset / category is alert/alarm when PODs are restarting to avoid potential transnational issues.Example if POD ...
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Functionality already exists

Infrastructure metrics in custom dashboards

The customer would like to create views on infrastructure. To be able to do so we would need to configure views also infrastructure e.g. aws ec2 rds hostsUse case would be: As an operational team we would like to build customize metrics dashb...
about 4 years ago in Instana 1 Functionality already exists

RBAC - Add support for AD Group to Instana Group mapping

The customer would like to manage users by linking AD Groups to Groups within Instana so that I do not have to recreate teams and roles which already exist within Active Directory.
about 4 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

Service Entity rules with an Application Perspective scope should only fire if calls in the AP are impacted

TL DR - the customer expectation when setting up a Service alert with an Application Perspective scope is that it uses the same KPIs that they see when viewing the service within the AP.
almost 5 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

Alerts for endpoints do not contain details of the service they are part of

Service details should be included in Endpoint events when sent via Alert Channels. Without this information they can't route events to the correct team and want to use us as a key part of their alerting strategy.
almost 5 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

AI Ops - automated Cost/Quota based selection of Clusters to provision Apps.

Add policies and cost analysis to provision based on Cost or quota policies. leverage model in CloudForms. and Extend to Containers.
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Functionality already exists

Usage and Metering

As an MCM service provider, I’d like to be able to retrieve usage and metering data through our MCM hub via a multi-tenant aware API at relative high frequency (on demand) for billing purposes.
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Functionality already exists

Need to create alert based on trace / http metric value

create a custom alert (and thus event in the first instance) in our Production Instana instance.EVENT: The application is "Card Services" the metric is "Call latency" (P99) and the filter I'm trying to apply is on call.http.path that equals a spec...
about 5 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

Provide annotation and export of maps to Visio, PDF, PNG and print.

Provide annotation and export of maps to Visio, PDF, PNG and print.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Functionality already exists