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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
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...

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Automated report from instana dashboards

We are trying to send an automated report from instana custom dashboard via email, but we don't see any options available in UI also don't see anything in the instana documentation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability Please help wit...
2 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Under review

Ability to monitor IBM Cloud MySQL DBaaS

We're currently missing the ability to monitor MySQL DBaaS hosted by IBM Cloud in depth. Maybe it's possible to task an agent to connect to a remote MySQL database using a agent running somewhere else. We'd like to get some performance stats, open...
2 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Under review

Instana monitoring MQ can only filter on queues, not able to filter by a channel or topics and per client.

Instana monitoring MQ can only filter on queues, not able to filter by a channel or topics and per client.
3 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Ingest Turbonomic Topology

Ability to ingest infrastructure topology from Turbo would allow for a more granular/comprehensive view across our IT Ecosystem. This would lead to faster resolution of IT incidents.
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Cloud Pak for AIOPs Policy export/import feature doesn't exist

The customer installed Event Manager (NOI 1.6.8) on Openshift (hybrid deployment). They noticed that it is very difficult to review policies without import/export feature. Below is their feedback: "We discussed about an enhancement request of Wats...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Events (Syslog and SNMP Traps) parsing tool - Drag & Drop Capabilities

Why is it useful? Existing and new customers spend a lot of time doing the parsing of events received by generic probes (as syslog, snmp, glf, etc) since those include a generic rules file. However, most of them have custom Object Servers Columns ...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

we need feature to select alerts and export them to excel file

When we have several alerts on the same device or location we generate a report/excel file with all the related alerts and attach it to the Remedy Incident. Right now we have to do it manually. So we need feature to select alerts and export them t...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Export Alerts and Incidents through one or more kafka channel/topic(s)

To continuously be able to export alerts and incidents to external systems, an export mechanism based on kafka is suggested.
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Netcool probe can connect any other component in service assurance platform

Currently Netcool probe is designed to read only static data as lookup file and can insert data in Objectserver. No other DB or updating alarms is possible. If Netcool probe can handle any other database other than objectserver also can connect an...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Re : gNMI - Catalyst 9800 IOT Sensor and Wifi Metric collection

C https://richardatkin.com/post/2022/03/22/Streaming-environmental-air-quality-data-from-the-Cisco-Catalyst-9136-WiFi6e-Access-Point.html https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/9800/technical-reference/catalyst-9800-programmabil...
3 days ago in SevOne / Enterprise Wireless (WIFI) 0 Under review