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Native Instana Support for Oracle GoldenGate (On-Prem & OCI)

Oracle GoldenGate (OGG) is a mission-critical replication technology widely used in financial services, retail, and telco customers. Today, Instana does not have a native sensor for OGG, which forces customers to rely on custom scripts, Prometheus...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Request for Kafka Partition-Level Metrics Collection in Instana

Currently, Instana does not provide the ability to collect Kafka metrics at the partition level. For example, it is not possible to monitor the backlog of messages for each partition. If such information cannot be obtained directly in Instana, it ...
2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Under review

Propose the creation of contextual menus within the Incident section of Watson AIOps to manage grouped incidents, similar to existing capabilities for individual alerts.

Currently, Watson AIOps allows specific actions to be executed through contextual menus within individual alerts. However, this capability does not exist in the Incident section, where multiple related alerts are grouped into a single incident. Th...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Customisable links on Instana home dashboard

Currently, the Instana Home Dashboard provides quick-access links to resources such as “Install agents or collectors,” “Add user,” “IBM documentation,” “Release Notes,” and “Community blogs.” However, enterprise Instana users often require direct ...
15 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

Create an event for the SUSPECT STATE database metric in MS SQL

We need to create an event when the database is in SUSPECT STATE equal to YES and notify this state. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.305?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server In the Instana's event page, we canno...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Support for ElasticSearch v8.18 and higher

Currently, Instana Sensor supports until v8.17.1 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.299?topic=technologies-monitoring-elasticsearch#configuration. ElasticSearch has already moved to v9.x and Instana support for ElasticSearch has...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Include Unusual Spend chart in the anomaly email notification

Currently, unusual spend is reported via email alert - but there is no daily spend and a visual of a cost spike available, unless one goes to Cloudability anomalies and clicks on alert detail. It will be very useful to have that anomaly chart incl...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Under review

Support BAW on CP4BA in Instana Business Monitoring

Currently, IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) running on Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) is not fully supported in Instana Business Monitoring.BPM calls from BAW are detected but not processed correctly — the bizops-writer does not c...
3 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Under review

Search the runbookInstances with Date&Hour filter instead of simple

The AIOPS Runbook Activities page doesnt allow the user to filter based on the hour of the day. Having this option will help filter better when runbooks > 1000 in a short window.
12 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Quick search for Alert Viewer

1.6.x Alert Viewer search bar does not support multiple search conditions. For example, user's will sometimes want to search for events with server name = 'xyz' that have summary text = 'something happened'. As of today, the search bar only accept...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Under review