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More granularity for maintenance windows, adding minutes not just hours

Need to be able to shorten time frame for maintenance windows. For example a 15 or 30 minute window, or a 1 hour and 30 minutes for example.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Functionality already exists

Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
10 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Allow for Azure Memor Metrics collection via Azure Monitor Logs

Microsoft will be depreciation Memory collection via the Azure Diagnostics extension. This will require the use of a monitor agent and Azure Monitor. Customer already has memory collection using Azure Monitor Logs. Since this isnt current supporte...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Native Instana agent collection of Nvidia DCGX telemetry and Nvidia appliances healthcheck

Following the guide on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-monitoring-gpu-public-preview we were able to bring some data into Instana using OpenTelemetry and prometheus format collection and processing of t...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Under review

Managing policies through APIs

The temporal training resulted in a really large set of insights, with over 50 thousand results. As the operators review the generated policies, we need enable, disable, or achive policies frequently. However, doing that through the UI is really t...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Requesting that an enhancement be created to allow SevOne NMS to interface for user token card authentication on IBM Tivoli WebSphere Application Server using Single-Sign-On

I work for the US Air Force and we need to be able to use our token cards to authenticate from IBM Tivoli JazzSM/DASH to SevOne NMS and SevOne Data Insights. Currently the NMS only supports Okta/Azure SSO/SAML providers. I am not seeing support fo...
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 8 Future consideration

Privacy enhancement to the Labor Tab.

Would it be possible to lock or hide the Existing / Planned Employee subtab under Labor tab to some users? The goal is to enable more granular access control—so that user permissions could be configured to allow access to either the Existing tab, ...
13 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Integrate Impact GUI Policy with Vscode

We want to integrate IBM Impact GUI policies into a CI/CD pipeline using Visual Studio Code (VS Code). The goal is to streamline the way policies are developed, tested, versioned, and deployed, instead of relying on manual updates through the Impa...
13 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Event ID in the subject line

Description: At present, Instana alert emails display the Event ID (currently alphanumeric) only in the email body. For operational efficiency, we need the Event ID to also appear in the email subject line. Current Behavior: Event ID is alphanumer...
25 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted