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Dashboard threshold and Y-Axis label

Currently the charts are miss understandable because of the missing y-axis label and the missing possibility to paint a simple line Threshold Line Make it possible to add a line or two in the charts to visualize good an not so good values. Maybe a...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal / User Interface 1

Please update SevOne to support monitoring of the most recent Java releases

Update the SevOne JMX monitoring capability to support updated versions of JAVA. When developers build poor JAVA code it will chew through resources assigned to the JVM until such a point until it crashes and goes into garbage collection. Where co...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

Enable to exclude entities from built-in events by DFQ (Dynamic Focus Query)

Users cannot configure any conditions of built-in events. However in some cases, built-in event could be opened even though it is not harmful. Users would be happy if you can exclude entities from built-in events by using (single or sometimes mult...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

try/catch in Impact Policy should give full stack trace

When writing Java Script Impact Policies I noticed the following:In the below code example Log(error.stack) seems to only output a truncated stacktrace, which isn't really much use in debugging. I see that I can use error.message,but that does not...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

ScopeBasedGrouping GUI should expose the Policy Name to the parent event of the group

The GUI available in DASH/WebGUI to configure a policy for Scope Based Groups should expose the policy name to the parent event. Otherwise it is not possible to associate any further logic to the group or its parent event.It's probably relatively ...
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Flow Rules and ability to block unknown

I would like a way to block all "unknown" flows from all flow collectors such that I do not process flows I do not want to have in my system. These unknown sources eat resources on collectors and I would rather an a "deny ip any any unknown" type ...
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Needs more information

Flow Rules and grouping Collectors

I would like a way to have a group of flow collectors in SevOne grouped then be able to use that group inside flow rules. Thus allowing me to have a USA group, An EMEA group and so on. Now I can easily say "For all flow collectors in the DNC_Japan...
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Support tracing of RMI calls in the same JVM.

Our information system rely a lot of on RMI calls between components ( EJB). To optmize those calls we have deployed multiple components in the same JVM. When a component A calls component B in the same JVM, INSTANA does not trace the call to B co...
9 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Under review

Custom dashboard - last value

Through Prometheus, we are gathering in Instana a gauge metric that shows if an instance is active (1) or inactive (0). We'd like to show this value in a custom dashboard using a 'Big number widget' or a 'Top list widget'. It would be great if we ...
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Whenever data export from the Cloudability bucket to the CCM bucket fails, customer should be receiving a notification /alert stating the same

Whenever data export from the Cloudability bucket to the CCM bucket fails, customer should be receiving a notification /alert stating the same. This will help them to communicate wioth their stakeholders that there will be discrepancy in cloud num...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Submitted