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Enhance the event table

Let's say i have 20+ IBMi systems all under the same zone.I have a filter within the Event page that only show me my IBMi Zone, and the table is really hard to read because:- "On" always shows the sensor name (which can be like Active jobs on..., ...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Change the MSGW filtering by excluding the jobs in MSGW without a reply needed

Customers might have a few (or more) jobs in MSGW that don't actually need a reply. When configuring the MSGW monitoring in the INSTANA configuration.yaml, you can only define status/subsystem, so everything in MSGW would be considered, generating...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

we need tsamp supported on redhat over OCI

we need tsamp supported on redhat over OCI We have a customer that use OCI and today and are migrating BPM platform from aix to OCI infrastructure.They use db2 and tsamp today.But we have problems to configure tsamp.
3 months ago in Tivoli System Automation 1 Submitted

Updating Alerts

Keep alerts up to date is incredibly painful. People come and go and roles change. The process to ensure alerts are going to the right key stakeholders is incredibly painful. I have several suggestions. Option 1. Ability to keep alerts automatical...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Under review

Viewing IBMMQ Channel Maximum Connection Count Metric

Based on the case TS020305515, Customer would need to see the maximum connection count of IBMMQ on the Instana UI metrics and to be able to create event based on maximum connection count but not the connection count only (which is already presente...
10 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

ojdbc11.jar support with Netcool/Omnibus JDBC Gateway

The Oracle Reporter DB uses Kerberos authentication and ojdbc8*.jar's are not supported with Kerberos, hence ojdbc11.jar is needed and JDBC Gateway is not supportive at the moment and get below error, Error: E-GJA-000-000: [ngjava]: G_JDBC: Thread...
10 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Support namespace label or annotation matching for shared costs

Within the Containers (Container Insights 2.0), I would like to be able to use a namespace label or annotation it outline shared costs. The current limit of 50 characters does not scale within a production grade environment and unfortinatley curre...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 3

Time Based Monitoring

We have several Monitors which are timing based and trigger on Certain days/date and time. Currently Instana doesn’t handle these request
over 1 year ago in Instana 0 Future consideration

Request for Granular Filtering in Anomaly Detection Alerting

While Cloudability does allow for specified anomaly detection alerts through customizable business dimensions, the process is overly cumbersome. The customer has requested that anomaly detection alerts allow for more granular filtering by default,...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Remote monitoring for kubernetes cluster

Be able to observe a kubernetes cluster without deploying instana agent (pods) in the cluster (agentless).
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Needs more information