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PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...
PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...

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Request for a cluster management API endpoint to give visibility of the data replication status when adding an HSA.

Request is to provide an API endpoint that provides data replication status during REPAVE process when adding an HSA, so we can automate procedure and comply with company DC requirements.
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Provide improved options for searching LDAP groups when configuring LDAP based access.

Provide improved options for searching LDAP groups when configuring LDAP based access. Today group filter is using “*<string provided>*” as the group name filter. Given the scale of our AD environment this takes too long to respond or return...
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Planned for future release

Technologies Reporting metrics

Technologies Reporting metrics like min, max and average on what bases they are pulling and if we want to see total data flowing to Instana backend per day which value we should consider (min, max or average) should we sum it? As mentioned in the...
6 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Ability to filter objects listed in the Workspace area on DWC Workload Designer screen

The 'Manage Workload Definitions' page had a Filter option under the working pane that allowed objects within the working list to be located quickly and easily. There does not appear to be a way to filter the objects under the Workspace area in Wo...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

To export all certified OID's with respect to Object types and certified KPI's in Sevone

Hi Team, Appreciated your all idea's . One more suggestion we required to provide that for future versions is to add option like "To export all certified OID's with respect to Object types and certified KPI's in Sevone" So it will be useful to kee...
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 4 Functionality already exists

Granular resizing automation policies for Cloud Volume and DBs similar to 'Scale for Performance/Savings' settings for Cloud VMs

As a user, I would like the flexibility to specify which actions to automate and which ones should be reviewed and/or taken manually. Similar to the Orchestration and Automation settings for VM, I would like to see a Scale All / Scale for Performa...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Future consideration

Extend functionality of the Maintenance Window Manager - Generate Report in PDF

By adding Report in PDF format Maintenance Window Manager may export data that we can see on the screen. Customer's NMS operator can select the window for report ( maintenance START or maintenance STOP window ) so it can be share with the other te...
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Sensor for monitoring Elasticsearch Cluster 8.9.x

Need sensor tosupport for monitoring Elasticsearch Cluster version 8.9.x
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Reduce granularity of adaptive threshold to 2-3 mins for smart alerts

We need granularity up to 2 or 3 mins. Our MTTD (Mean Time To Detect) goal is less than 10 minutes. For us to achieve this, alert should be triggered to us within 2 mins. Reason is to check for minimum 2 consecutive violations before alert is trig...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Future consideration

IBM PowerHMC Sensor - Enable Logical Partition "state" metric for custom event

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the LPAR status when it is not running.
6 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 0 Future consideration