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Publish a list of the open source products and versions.

We need to be able to easily track what version underlying open source products are being used in the latest Instana releases (Cassandra, etc) so we can make sure we are using versions approved by our firm. Please add a page to the Instana documen...
9 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Add Databricks cluster names to Cloudability for Databricks GCP

Cloudability Databricks GCP connector is not bringing in Databricks cluster names. As result it is difficult to use Cloudability to understand which Databricks GCP cluster contributed to costs. Cloudability shows Databricks Azure cluster names. Da...

Display Account ID and Region Columns in Anomaly Detection List

Customer Feedback: Currently, the Anomaly Detection list only includes the account name. The customer requests that the Account ID be displayed in the list to make it easier to identify accounts when multiple payer accounts are registered. They fo...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Ability to get status of Azure vendor credentials via the API

Currently there is no way for us to be alerted if a specific set of the vendor credentials stops working. We can only get alerted by email if the verification fails. We have had scenarios where the verification status will show verified but the Az...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Submitted

Allow the NMS to purge SNMP devices either missing at the SNMP agent (packet error on polling that OID) or missing completely (no response to TCP packets)

As per title, the cluster settings call for set up parameters that take care handling operative or missing objects. However, this should also allow for the removal of any objects with a SNMP Operational or Administrative Status other than down per...
9 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Support the access setting with id & certificate for AzureSensor

Currently Azure sensor support connection only with service principals id & secret as bellow. com.instana.plugin.azure: enabled: true # Subscription & Tenant ID subscription: '[Your-Subscription-Id]' tenant: '[Your-Tenant-Id]' # List ...
9 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Consistent sizing: Show group member(s) with highest utilization which determine size of the group

In Turbonomic UI you don't have a chance to easily identify the member of a consistent resizing group with the highest load which determines the VM size for the group. This becomes almost impossible when comparing VMs running on hosts with differe...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

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...
2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

Verizon Wireless needs an API to create and maintain maps in DI

Verizon Wireless has hundreds of status maps managed by scripts currently, it would be unthinkable to have them manually create and maintain those maps in DI maps
30 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 2 Future consideration

Documentation on how to setup SevOne NMS to monitor kubernetes via eBPF

There are quite a few mentions in blog posts and videos about combining SevOne NMS with Network Observability (NetObserv Operator) in order to monitor kubernetes via eBPF Introducing IBM SevOne 7 - Now available https://community.ibm.com/community...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration