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Need to enhance the AIX / LPAR monitoring as the basic monitoring is not sufficient to understand the performance problems.

After speaking to the IBM Power Sales team, existing AIX metrices are not sufficient even when enhanced with the IBM pHMC sensor metrices. The customers are relying on the vmstat/iostat/nmon commands to extract reports and do manual work of assess...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Business Monitoring: Display the actual endpoints under Services tab instead of showing the JVM under Top Services

In IBM Business Automation Workflow, we usually create business workflows/processes at the top level. A workflow contains human, system activities and gateways. A human activity usually contains Script blocks to execute code, service flows for sys...
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Flexibility to adjust the adaptive threshold to take a longer time-frame into account to avoid sharp changes to the adaptive threshold.

The customer requests more flexibility in the method of determining the adaptive threshold and allow the adaptive threshold to take a longer time-frame into account when modifying the threshold. In the cases experiences by the customer, when a tre...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 7 Is a defect

Reduce granularity of adaptive threshold to 2-3 mins for smart alerts

We need granularity up to 2 or 3 mins. Our MTTD (Mean Time To Detect) goal is less than 10 minutes. For us to achieve this, alert should be triggered to us within 2 mins. Reason is to check for minimum 2 consecutive violations before alert is trig...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 4 Future consideration

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Custom Agent installation path

This request is related to a missing option that allows to define a custom path for agent installation on both Windows and Linux. The need is to install the agent in a folder other than the default folder, for security compliance reasons.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Support for Node.JS Sensor on native IBM i Agent

This is beneficial to expand tracing to applications utilizing Node.JS.
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

Alert setup on Kubernetes Horizontal pod autoscaling nearing max pods capacity

Ability to setup alert on Kubernetes Horizontal pod autoscaling nearing max pods capacity as this requirement will help monitoring team to take action before Horizontal pod autoscaling reach its max capacity
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 4

Need options other than helm to install the synthetic PoP servers

I'm working with a customer that has access to the kubernetes cluster, but doesn't have access to helm. So, he can't install the synthetic playback (PoP server). We need to provide other options for installing the PoP server. Ideally, provide both...
11 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

monitoring multiple vCenters from a single Agent

Per documentation (www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/... you can deploy the agent on the vCenter itself or any agent of choice (linux/windows) on a remote system - the vCenter sensor is able to perform remote monitoring if installation on the vCenter is not...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Not under consideration