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Allow the NMS to purge SNMP devices either missing at the SNMP agent (packet error on polling that OID) or missing completely (no response to TCP packets)

As per title, the cluster settings call for set up parameters that take care handling operative or missing objects. However, this should also allow for the removal of any objects with a SNMP Operational or Administrative Status other than down per...
6 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Support the access setting with id & certificate for AzureSensor

Currently Azure sensor support connection only with service principals id & secret as bellow. com.instana.plugin.azure: enabled: true # Subscription & Tenant ID subscription: '[Your-Subscription-Id]' tenant: '[Your-Tenant-Id]' # List ...
6 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Watson AIOps Container Monitoring Enhancement - Dynatrace Metadata Configuration

Currently, the Bank of America has a monitoring solution in place to monitor Watson AIOps containers running on NOI 1.6.13 Hybrid Cloud. While all configurations have been completed, we are unable to monitor all namespaces simultaneously. Each tim...
20 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Subcategories in credits to classify them and better understand these concepts when creating reports

The client would like to be able to subclassify credits in the same way, or in a more granular way, as seen in the console of their cloud providers. In this case, GCP. Currently, in Cloudability, we only classify them as credits or not.
13 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Submitted

Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Enable the customization of fields for alerts coming from Instana in Watson AIOps, so that custom payloads and additional data can be fully utilized in direct integrations.

Currently, when integrating alerts from Instana into Watson AIOps, there is a critical limitation: only a set of predefined fields are transferred, and important custom information contained in Instana's custom payloads is not mapped or visible in...
about 2 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Instana, ADDI, and IBM Z Application Discovery

Instana's Current Capabilities On Power Systems LPARs: Instana can effectively discover applications through agents installed on the operating system, identifying processes, services, and their dependencies. On IBM Z Systems: Full support for z/Li...
12 days ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Needs more information

Remove the ability to add or search inbound or outbound entities from the Relations tab

Amex would like to remove the ability to add or search inbound or outbound entities from the Relationships tab, only keep the tab for viewing relations.
14 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 2 Future consideration

Update BIOS in OVA distribution from legacy BIOS to EUFI

Current BIOS in Rocky Linux OVA is legacy BIOS. Customer is requesting an EUFI BIOS image.
15 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 5 Future consideration

Updating Alerts

Keep alerts up to date is incredibly painful. People come and go and roles change. The process to ensure alerts are going to the right key stakeholders is incredibly painful. I have several suggestions. Option 1. Ability to keep alerts automatical...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted