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Device Manager Alerting exclude option

By default all alert types are shown. Sometimes you only want to exclude certain types such as Debug. Instead the only way is to have to select every available option. NMS provides a better way of doing this using a tick option - by default everyt...
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Report Linking "excludes" operator

DI Report Linking only provides the "includes" operator. Require the "excludes" option. We have reports that need to be excluded for specific cases but enabled for all.
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Instana Synthetics should support CyberArk to store the passwords

Instana Synthetics should support CyberArk to store the passwords
4 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Implement namespace exclusion functionality for new Kubernetes sensor (k8sensor)

Problem: Current IBM Instana Kubernetes sensor lacks namespace exclusion functionality, causing uncontrolled data collection and billing increases from system/excluded namespaces. Business Impact: Organizations cannot control monitoring scope, lea...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Inbuilt Incident Priority Control

Summary of the Current Solution One of the use cases we implemented is to classify incoming events via probe rules into service types (e.g., Outage, Degradation, Interface Down) using a lookup table. Incidents are created via front-end policies wi...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

ObjectServer scalability to support higher volume of alarms

We have been seeing the objectservers limitation to handle about ~200K standing alarms at a given time. And whenever there are more alarms or sudden spikes it's not able to handle the load and goes instable state.It's imperative to increase this c...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Role Visibility By Product

Currently, when assigning a role in Frontdoor, it displays roles from all IBM products, which causes confusion during the assignment process. Ideally, if roles are assigned within Cloudability, it should only show the roles that have permissions f...
9 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 2 Functionality already exists

Events should not be closed automatically until the issue gets resolved

The events are getting auto-closed in Instana for all the metrics such as Jobs, CPU, etc. We want the event to be closed only if the issue is resolved in the next poll.
9 months ago in Instana / IBM i 4 Not under consideration

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements

We have requirement to monitor the alerts for AS400 message queue based below scenarios: 1. If the message type is (DIAGNOSTIC/INQUIRY/INFORMATIONAL, etc.) and the severity is (>=, <=, or =).2. If the message type is (DIAGNOSTIC/INQUIRY/INFO...
9 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Metrics that are inside a pod (f.e. artifacts, containers, shared storage, etc.) in Instana

There are no such things in Instana right now. It can help with resolving issues f.e. the pod is in the Running state but it's not working because of the missing or not working properly artifact.
9 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 8 Not under consideration