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AIOps Topology template to filter on elements' alert status

When creating dynamic templates, we sometimes run into issue that the resulting resource groups are quite huge (1000+ elements). From an operator's perspective, the focus is usually on resources having issues (alerts). We'd therefore like to have ...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

A possibility to have fixed Time Range in a specific Custom Dashboard

For example: in the whole Instana UI by default the Time Range is set to ‘Last Hour’ but for the specific dashboard created by myself I want to have it set for ‘Last Month’ and when I will open it, I won’t need to change anything - the ‘default’ C...
7 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

DB2 - HADR_FLAGS metric to be Monitored and Alerted

Hi Team!According to Instana documentation, sounds "HADR_FLAGS" metric is not collected, correct ?So when a tablespaces is invalid or error state on the Standby database, the HADR_FLAGS field will displaythe value STANDBY_TABLESPACE_ERROR. Monitor...
about 2 years ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Allow for defining custom date and time formats. This should be globally or per tenant. Maybe have a few predefined formats to choose from. Maybe have ISO 8601 as the default. Let us choose the default time zone as UTC regardless of our local time zone. This should cover all places where a date and time is displayed - unless it came from an external source like in metadata. Maybe let a different format be chosen per widget if needed.

Having a consistent format across all tools would be very nice to have, so being able to define it in DI would help in that. Having everything default to UTC would be very nice since 100% of our reports are displayed in UTC and the SevOne cluster ...
12 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Plot historical percentile values in "Prove It" UI when actions are taken

Today, using VM resize actions as an example, we only show the percentile value based on the current capacity of the resource. When customers take an action to either resize up or resize down to bring the percentile back into its desired state, th...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Instana Auto Incident Closure

The auto-incident closure in Instana is currently working as designed — incidents are generated when an issue occurs and automatically closed once the condition clears or stops recurring. While this is expected behavior by default, it is creating ...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Monitoring Multiple Vcenters using single instana agent VM

Dear IBM, I am facing issue to monitor 5 Vcenters of my client with single instana agent, Vcenters Credentials i added in the configuration.yaml file but every time it takes last Vcenter to Instana UI. I used different approaches in the yaml as we...
2 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 1 Future consideration

Need to trace core banking application based on Temenos

Dear Colleagues, our customer is using Temenos software as a core banking application and they miss tracing of the application. There are few traces: - com.temenos.t24 - com.temenos.tafj (com.temenos.tafj.runtime.statements.jStatements:READ) pleas...
5 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Budget Alerting - add Additional Emails

Currently unable to add additional Users to receive Budget Notifications/Alerts. One has to Subscribe, which is unnecessary overhead.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Future consideration

To include more services under Azure.

Omnicom Team would like to include more services under Resource Inventory -> Azure. Currently, only Compute, Managed Disk and Database services are available under services dropdown in Resource Inventory section for Azure.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 3 Not under consideration