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Enhance Alert API to support filtering based on alert attributes rather than being limited to only AlertID

Currently, the Alert API allows filtering only by AlertId. This creates inefficiency when building custom automations, since retrieving alerts based on specific fields (e.g., incidentid, alert fields like technology,sitename etc.) requires multipl...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add possibility to have longer retention periods for Logs in cold storage

Many clients have the requirement to keep logs for longer periods in a cold storage, for example 180 days. Main competitors in the Logging space do have this capability. We need to be able not only to store it but also to perform similar actions a...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 1 Planned for future release

Empty Lanes should be hidden by default in lists and roadmaps

Every time someone goes into a view or a list, they need to click on the hide empty lanes. Can this be done by default or programmatically?
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 1 Future consideration

UI Enhancements

Is there any plan to have better support for text wrapping? Is there any plan for better sizing of card elements in a dashboard view? Text placed on a card should auto size based on the number of characters etc.
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 1 Needs more information

Need to trace incoming calls for applications exposed via 3Scale

Dear Colleagues, we have a customer who is using 3Scale to expose their application APIs to the Internet. At the moment they successfully trace backend calls with Instana and see errors when they happen. However they can't exactly match incoming c...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Create application map (Business App) based on Accounts

Customer is splitting their apps in different MS Azure Subscriptions. These MS Azure Subscriptions are visible in Turbonpomic as Accounts.To create an application map based on the resources in an account, currently each entity type (vm, disk, db, ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Monitoring capability for IBMi temporary addresss metric

Customer want to monitor temporayry address metric on IBMi(AS400), Because there are some issues for consuming this temporary address. So, it must monitor , but Instana can't monitor this metric. Please add enhanced function for monitoring tempora...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Add v3 endpoint equivalent to GET /api/v2/devices/{deviceId}/objects/{objectId}/indicators/{indicatorId}/data

POST /api/v3/metadata/indicators (using filter) is listed as the v3 replacement for GET /api/v2/devices/{deviceId}/objects/{objectId}/indicators/{indicatorId}/data However, this endpoint does not retrieve the same information as the v2 counterpart...
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Is a defect

AIOps Incident Lifecycle - User Config Option for Incident Closure Resolved State for Incident

The current lifecycle process doesn’t allow users to control when or how an incident should be marked as resolved or closed—it’s fully automated based on the Netcool alert status. This becomes an issue in certain use cases, especially when inciden...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Require DNC appliances to support much higher FPS than supported limit of 80KFPS on single appliance

DNC appliances are spec'd based on the Number of Interfaces and FPS (Flows Per Second). Different devices can be distributed to multiple NMS appliances (DNC's) for handling large FPS. However, how can the NMS monitor single devices that far exceed...
2 months ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 1 Needs more information