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Instana must provide a "Matching Operator" that should be a 'NOT' (The 'NOT' is not available in the Instana UI drop down) for host entity types

Bradesco customer is moving from ITM into the realm of Instana. There are currently using several thresholds that involves checking a disk NOT equal to /disk-path-here. For example look at the below ITM situations; i) *IF *VALUE KLZ_Disk.Inodes_Us...
about 2 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 4 Functionality already exists

Limit communication between PSS and DS to a specific eth interface

In an environment where servers have multiple eth interfaces it, all the traffic between PSS and DS ought to happen only between those interfaces that are specified in collation.properties. Currently, despite configuring DS <-> PSS communica...
3 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Planned for future release

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

Expand Cldy Container Insights to ECS

A large portion of our container usage is using ECS. It would be helpful for the Cldy Container Insights to work with ECS.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 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

Business Mapping in IBM Turbonomic – Current Limitation and Needed Enhancement

Currently, in IBM Turbonomics, we can automatically create business mappings based on tag values only for Virtual Machines. I need this feature to also support and group other services such as storage, databases, and containers.
13 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

ServiceNow Gateway to respond to ncp_ping and hence work under Process Agent control.

In relation to case TS020138656 SNOW GW doesn't respond to ncp_ping and hence not working with PA. This impacted our production instances running under Omnibus nco_pad for High Availability. IBM Supported suggested in the case above: " I would lik...
13 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Omnibus ServiceNow Gateway OAuth 2.0 to support "client_credential" grant_type

In relation to a IBM CASE TS019948013 Omnibus GW for SNOW OAuth2.0 Refresh Token status: 302 issue. Current Impact: our Production instance of SNOW gateway can't use OAuth2.0 authentication mode due to the reported issue above. Raise an enhancemen...
13 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

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