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Add SysLocation, SysContact and other string OIDs as Message Variables for alerts

As the title says, adding these standard OIDs as trigger messages would be very useful for alerting and management on the NMS for engineers and owners of the affected device to contact the team or person responsible of it.
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Sync configuration between two Instana Backend instances

There is no tool available to download/upload the Standard Edition backend configuration - neither stanctl command nor UI option. Lack of such capability brings significant additional burden for operation teams running Instana self-hosted deployme...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

multi-tenency and multi-chatops channel support for Cloud Pak for AIOps

We have been discussing these topics with the WW AIOps team for some time now. Based on what I've heard, multi-tenancy and multi-ChatOps channel functionalities are part of the product backlog but do not have a specific timeline yet. As the client...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Network configuration manager capability

To complement the monitoring capabilities, we're looking for SevOne to have a Network Configuration Manager module for backups and versioning.
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Cost Center Owner access approval should be one and avoid manual addition

After a new user has got added to "Cost Center Owner" group the new user still does not have access. The new user needs to again request access to "Cost Object Permissions" which needs to be done manually by a Planning super user. This manual dire...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Add Comments to Price Book Rules

Adding comments to price book rules would make it easier to track the intended effects of each price book rule along with changes and adjustments made over time.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 1 Future consideration

Custom Dashboard -use metric per Database (schema) already available under MSSQLServer

We have valuable metrics under MSSQLSERVER server monitoring in instana. but it is not possible to create a widget with these metric. I need to be able to put in a custom dashborads for example: "Connections & Users" for a specific Schema on a...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Support Kafka Protobuf integration in Message Bus probe

Activating this type of integration will allow our clients to continue incorporating the latest technology equipment into their event and alarm management platforms, which positions the product in a better way compared to the competition in the ma...
about 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Monitoring Tibco BWCE

This idea proposes extending the existing TIBCO BusinessWorks (BW) monitoring sensor to also support TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition (BWCE). Currently, the sensor offers monitoring capabilities solely for on-premise environments, which limit...
11 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

1. Incorporate CSV Attachments in Email Reports & 2. Ensure Full Feature Parity Between Data Insight and NMS Reports

Incorporate CSV Attachments in Email ReportsIntroduce the option to include raw data in CSV format as an attachment when generating and sending email reports through Data Insight. This feature is already available in NMS (vPAS) but is currently ab...
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration