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Local binding mode support for Local monitoring for MQ deployed in OCP cluster

At the moment Instana agent only supports client binding mode for locally monitored OpenShift deployed MQ.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mq#common-scenarios This required agent configuration...
6 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

Add a synthetic indicator expression for poll frequency

When creating a synthetic indicator, it was found that if you are trying to convert data to a per second output, rather than the poll frequency, this can be difficult to do in specific situations. For example, a device has an multiple interface ob...
17 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Need an additional Date Range option for this month last year.

In the dashboard view of Cloudability, for date range. I would like to request a new option be added for last year-month. It would cover this month last year, so Oct 1st - Oct 31st of 2024. It would have that same range all month long, then on 11/...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Having baselines shifted automatically whenever clock change happens in UK. We do it manually with a php now.

Whenever we had a clock change, all our baseline alerting will report false alarms because of the 1 hr drift. We have to run a custom php provided by support in all the appliances to shift the baselines by 1 hr. Having the baselines shift as part ...
17 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Enable Instana backend to accept EUM traffic from Mobile App that uses key from different Instana instance

Why is it useful: This requirement to support High Availability architecture (fail-over scenario) which is crucial for mission-critical apps. Who would benefit from it: Enterprise with mission-critical apps will get benefit of Observability tool t...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Allow limiting access to Data Insight OOTB reports.

In multi-tenant deployments, the ability to limit what reports a user/tenant is presented with is key to being able to simplify the user experiance and reduce the effort for limited users or tenants to see only what they need. Allowing them to qui...
11 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 3 Future consideration

Support HTTP Parameter Filtering in Adaptive Threshold for Smart Alerts

Currently, Instana Smart Alerts allow HTTP parameter filtering only in static threshold mode. However, dynamic thresholds — which offer adaptive baselining and anomaly detection — do not support filtering by HTTP parameters Proposal:Extend adaptiv...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 6 Future consideration

Improvement of the History Tab presentation

Dears, Reading and finding back information in any history tab can be come a nightmare when it comes to items with metrics & automation rules. We would find it more readable if the history can either be filtered or cut in section according to ...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Future consideration

Provide a means for high availability of the Turbonomic platform

As a user I would like the ability to run Turbonomic in an active/active or active/passive model, so if my primary (or any) Turbonomic instance in my environment fails, I can continue operations without putting my infrastructure and business appli...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Future consideration

Integration into CMDB

ideally, Instana should have an integration with CMDB where information about these technologies and hosts are maintained. It will be efficient if Instana can read the CMDB so we can scope internal classifications for monitoring or alerting (Dynam...
18 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Future consideration