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Deploy and upgrade all the components in Instana Backend on Openshift with a single Operator

We need to simplify the upgrading and deploying procedure for INSTANA Backend on Openshift, A standard Openshift Operator could be the solution. It should allow to install the components and to upgrade it and the components as a standard Operator ...
2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

IBM supported OpenTelemetry collector for Windows Platform

GlobeLife is a windows platform organization. All of their applications run in Windows platform. They want to send logs from applications both in-house developed or COTS to Instana for best use for analysis. Currently there is a LINUX OpenTelemetr...
29 days ago in Instana / Logging 1 Submitted

Include date fields in the Bulk Edit screen

It is possible to edit fields in bulk in TargetProcess by selecting multiple entities (shift-click) and hitting "Edit 00 items". However, date fields (like Planned Start Date) are not editable through this screen. The date fields should be editabl...
18 days ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 1 Future consideration

Ability to assign and track investigation status of Cloudability cost anomalies in Cloudability UI

Problem:Right now in the Cloudability Cost Anomly you get a list of alerts for unusual/unexpected cost increases. The content of the alerts themselves is useful and provides the information needed to dig deeper. The challenge comes when trying to ...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Custom Dashborads - Axis and Widget legend display

Hi team, please allow the possibility to format the y-Axis, so it displays more values (not just the upper value). Regarding the Legends, in some cases they are displayed perfectly, but sometimes, when there are many metrics displayed, or few metr...
11 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Allow Probes to add dynamic custom fields to alerts in Watson AIOps that are visible in the details section.

n Netcool OMNIbus, it was possible to manually create new fields in the database (alerts.status) via insert operations, and then populate them through Probe rules. This allowed operators to enrich events with custom business-relevant data directly...
about 2 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

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

Add “Other” Grouping Option in Cloudability Dashboards

Why is it useful? In Apptio BI, users have the ability to enable or disable the “Other” grouping option when displaying results. This setting allows for cleaner and more accurate data visualization by deciding whether smaller categories should be ...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0

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

Kanban View States: ability to customize grouping of states

It would be helpful to have the ability to customize how states are displayed as columns in the Kanban view. Right now, the system automatically groups them based on process workflows. We would like the flexibility to categorize states or map them...