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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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QoS Reporting to be enabled on SDWAN Health Dashboard for CCSDWAN customers

Existing polling-configured APIs are unable to obtain these metrices. For e.g Post Policy Rate, etc. So need a solution to enable a QOS reporting.
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

Bank of America looking for the ability for SevOne to be able to alert on and collect string OIDs

The customer is looking to alert on several different OIDs which produce data of type string. Their use case is as they move from their old monitoring platform some vendors only offer specific OIDs in string form. (For example HA state with fortin...
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

data retention be extended for beyond 365 days for active as well as ceased devices

For some customers it is essential to have the historic data for more than 12 months. Hence need to have feasibility to extent the retention period beyond 365 days. Also same retention should be available for the devices which are not currently be...
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Not under consideration

Additional Topic Metrics for Kafka

Customer monitors Kafka performance based off lag with the topics. Right now we have bytes metrics along with messages in but they need visibility for the Messages Out metric too. Metrics needed: Messages Out Lag (difference in Messages in and out)
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Listing or extracting devices which are under maintenance

Currently Sevone doesn't have a feature to see the device list from GUI which devices are under maintenance. If the maintenance device group having n number of devices it will be very hard to check one by one. 1. Device status in Device manager sh...
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

The ability to execute pre and post scripts for parking VMs to make sure certain processes are up/down

We want the ability to run pre and post scripts to parking actions. these scripts can include commands to validate that certain processes are shutdown or have the script shut them down as well as make sure that certain processes are up when we pow...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

IBM SevOne NMS Alert Dashboard needs to display the Metadata column

The end-customers wants to display the Metadata field at the same time when he sees a problematic Object or Device on the Alert Dashboard (because there are fields such as the unit used and the contact person in the Metadata) The end-customer want...
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 5 Future consideration

Process-Level Configuration for Prometheus Scraper in Instana Agent (Kubernetes/OpenShift)

Summary: This idea outlines the essential need for a generic per-process configuration for scraping Prometheus data in Instana. The current missing of this feature limits Prometheus monitoring on Kubernetes and OpenShift; workarounds are causing u...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Azure Databricks Plug-In Enhancement: Add required parameters used in databricks into Job Definition panels in IWS 9.5+, and incorporate API v2.1 to enable run-now-and-wait.

Adding the ability to pass parameters to Azure Databricks opens up re-usability of individual databricks to perform tasks across a batch application that uses Tivoli for orchestration. This change also introduces flexability in application design....
9 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

WebMethods Integration Server Support

We need a WebMethods Integration Server 10.x support for our customer. In the flow where WebMethods Integration Server resides, the JVM is the smallest component that has calls passing through it, just like WebSphere Application Server. Thus, the ...
9 months ago in Instana / Java 2 Planned for future release