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Add Alias option for Hosts

Hi team, When monitoring a Host, the naming is based on the FQDN. Sometimes this name is not explanatory or easily identifiable by Instana users, especially when a customer has a big amount of hosts being monitored. It would be great to have the p...
12 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Turbonomic - Spot VMs Parking Support

Itaú Bank operates a large number of Spot Instances in their DEV/QA environments. Previously, they used an AWS Lambda function to park both Spot and regular EC2 instances but we are now migrating this functionality to Turbonomic. However, the inab...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Business Mapping in IBM Turbonomic – Current Limitation and Needed Enhancement

Currently, in IBM Turbonomics, we can automatically create business mappings based on tag values only for Virtual Machines. I need this feature to also support and group other services such as storage, databases, and containers.
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

ServiceNow Gateway to respond to ncp_ping and hence work under Process Agent control.

In relation to case TS020138656 SNOW GW doesn't respond to ncp_ping and hence not working with PA. This impacted our production instances running under Omnibus nco_pad for High Availability. IBM Supported suggested in the case above: " I would lik...
5 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Omnibus ServiceNow Gateway OAuth 2.0 to support "client_credential" grant_type

In relation to a IBM CASE TS019948013 Omnibus GW for SNOW OAuth2.0 Refresh Token status: 302 issue. Current Impact: our Production instance of SNOW gateway can't use OAuth2.0 authentication mode due to the reported issue above. Raise an enhancemen...
5 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Enhancing the RUM(Real User Monitoring) of Instana by the feature like Dynatrace's Visual Complete.

Currently, Instana’s "onLoad time" metric does not include XHR (XMLHttpRequest) or fetch requests that occur after the initial page load. The "onLoad time" is specifically defined as the time from fetchStart to loadEventEnd according to the browse...
3 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 3 Submitted

open multiple instances of a JazzSM DASH Page by calling sendPortletEvent(eventObject)

we have a so called template page in the system, containing widgets, which gets dynamically loaded via method sendPortletEvent(eventObject). The Payload is i.e: var eventObject = { name: 'http://ibm.com/isclite#launchPage' ,NavigationNode: 'com.ib...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the maintenance windows to give the possibility to decide what to suppress (Alerts, Events, Automation Policies)

I've recently started to configure instana for my IBMi environment, and after setting up my automation policies, i stumbled across the maintenance window which was my logical choice to prevent those policies to run within the maintenance scope (da...
27 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted