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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 Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend

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Another Large Bank would like one of SevOne's to support monitoring of Silverpeak SDWAN

Another Large Bank would like one of SevOne's supported SDWAN vendors to be Silverpeak- as they've made heavy investments in this area.
30 days ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 0 Planned for future release

Custom Tagging(or Labeling) to Incident(Story) Title in Slack is required in order to reduce the burden of Developers

The SREs and Developers as AIOps Customer wish to reduce their burdens to check every alarm notified in Slack channel. The Incident Title sending to the Slack channel is almost the same so that it is very hard just to see the title in Slack and de...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

ELK and Instana Deep Link in Slack is required to make SREs and Developers analyze the incident easier

Due to the difficulty of understanding Alert details in AIOps Console,it can help SREs and Developers to add ELK link and Instana link in the Alert Details in AIOps console to Slack channel as Deep Link. This can make SREs and Developers analyze t...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Needs more information

vSphere sensor should be able to monitor multiple vCenter environments

Most customers have multiple vCenter environments. With the current design, customers must dedicate multiple VMs in order to monitor multiple vCenter environments. This is a waste of resources and means that the customer must dedicate multiple ser...
4 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

disable ingress/egress records when not available

In NetFlow, there is an option to disable this. Uncheck "Create Ingress/Egress Records when not available". I don't see the same option for sFlow.
4 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Ansible Automation Scripts for Agent and TEPS Installation

Clients today use ITM as a base monitoring solutions for a variety of systems. In order to easily roll out ITM to additional systems, the ask is that ITM provide ansible automation scripts to assist with installation of server and agent components.
4 days ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Submitted

[Instana] Capture table name during batch writes operation

Currently, our system doesn't support capturing the table name for batch writes and we would like to benefit from this feature.
4 days ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Needs more information

Add support to another KexAlgorithms for SSh login

While scanning with TADDM part of the infrastructure, we couldn't login due to mismatch of the kexAlegorithms setup on the OS level and supported by TADDM => The kex algo 'curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256@libssh.org' is not supported by TADD...

Auto start netman when it goes down abruptly

Netman process helps in sending and receiving the messages to and from the agents. When it goes down unexpectedly, it has to come up automatically which will not impact the daily refresh as well.
4 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Need to be able to execute custom SQL queries via the DB2 sensor

While the DB2 sensor is good and has many metrics available, it never has exactly the metrics the customer is looking for. A customer has asked that the DB2 sensor be enhanced to allow them to execute a custom SQL statement and capture the results...
7 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted