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Instana's capability to ingest storage speed metrics from IBM i's host

Summary: Why is it useful? This will help clients to quickly detect and identify when something is wrong with their IBM i system especially when it has something to do with storage (read and write speed, causing slowness) Who would benefit from it...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Delivered

Add Totals for Number Columns in IT Planning

There are many times that I would like to see a sum at the bottom of the page when I am entering a value that is not associated with the budget numbers. This is used for a Fund Balance, a working number, budget request that has not been funded yet...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

Operational Recovery Cloud Archive (ORCA) Integration

API Reference: https://nasa.github.io/cumulus-orca/docs/developer/api#internal-reconcile-report-phantom-api-output
2 months ago in Concert Workflows 0 Delivered

Monitoring K8s PVC Storage space

Hi! We need the ability to monitor storage in Kubernetes as per article: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/storage-capacity/ Instana Request #30622 was logged for additional documentation, but stated that it is not possible yet.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Delivered

Idle Timeout should also consider user inactivity - not only when instana browser is hidden

At the moment the "Idle session timeout" you can set in Instana Authentication Settings only triggers when the Browser showing Instana UI is hidden (minimized to task bar). But it does NOT trigger when browser is left wide open but there is no Use...
12 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Delivered

Support for vSphere 8

Hi team, We found out that Instana supports vSphere until version 7 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=instana-monitoring-vsphere#supported-versions Please support version 8. Thank you
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Ability to create an incident for the correlated group of events in alerts page.

When AIOps is already doing correlation and crating a reduced noise by grouping the alerts, why not able to create an incident for the same group and show the highest raking event in main incident summary.
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Delivered

Kafka Sensor: Support Kafka Kraft Deployments

In Kafka Zookeeper deployments are deprecated since Confluent kafka 7.5 https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/kafka-metadata/zk-production.html Even though IBM Instana Kafka Agent supports Confluent Kafka 7.7.1 according to Support Sheet http...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Delivered

Support Oracle Linux

We are a Financial sector company from Perú that has Oracle Linux Server (https://www.oracle.com/pe/linux/) as part of its production core infrastructure. It is important to monitor this technologies because we need to comply with auditing require...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 6 Delivered

Monitor Disk I/O latency metrics

Currently, we don't show metrics related to Disk Latency. We don’t collect I/O latency related operations. This would be needed for business purposes.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered