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Alert notifications or subscriptions via Slack / Teams, etc.

Companies are getting away from email and moving to messaging platforms like Slack and Teams. Customers want to subscribe alerts to specific Slack channels vs. getting an email.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Future consideration

Enable a mobile application to extend SevOne monitoring functions beyond the desktop.

Clients want to view their networks and infrastructure from their smartphones on Android or iOS.
6 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration

Gantt View or Roadmap View that is Drillable

We are utilizing Power BI to build Gantt charts based off of epic, feature, and story dates to meet end user needs. Today in Targetprocess, roadmap views limit you to one entity type and is not drillable. If roadmaps were drillable, this would hel...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Reports 1 Future consideration

Show business dimensions in container reporting

Business dimensions add details that are logic driven vs. directly labeled. Customers want to be able to dynamically add additional information based on K8s labels and be able to filter on those in container insights.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow for up to 20 labels for K8s labels

Customers have different teams using different labels and need to account for this variety. Current limit causes some customers to prioritize one team's requirements over another. Some customers need 12 or 16 labels to cover all their use cases.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

filter by Account Name/ID

In the Rightsizing section, if it can add filters by Account Name or Account ID dimensions, it will be much handy for use to manage the rightsizing distribution.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Request for 32-bit Support in mqtracingexit for ITCAM MQ Agent Compatibility

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-tracing#downloading-ibm-mq-tracing-user-exit-for-on-premises-ibm-mq We are currently facing an issue with the IBM MQ Tracing Exit (mqtracingexit) on one of our Linux environments t...
3 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Update mappings instantly

When creating a Business Mapping or Business Metric, it is necessary to wait 24 hours for the metrics to be populated, causing delays in deliveries or data visualization. We want updates to be instantaneous or at least with a short update period, ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Obtain metrics for paging errors BD/NBD and PERM - TEMP addresses on the IBM i system

Clients have frequently inquired about the ability of Instana to provide additional metrics for IBM i environments. As we know, the current monitoring capabilities include key metrics related to jobs, subsystems, CPU and ASP capacity, history logs...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Perform periodic internal backups of all databases

We recently suffered some corruption of the Common Services Postgres database and found out that the pods themselves do not take any sort of backups to mitigate this situation. On a support call recently it was discovered that the Zen Database doe...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review