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Adding events logged in the standard output / systemout logs in WebSphere Application Servers

Hi Team, We noticed that many of the core events like applications getting started and stopped which are deployed in WebSphere Application Server are not recorded in Instana backend either as an event, alert or log. Please consider adding such eve...
3 months ago in Instana / WAS 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to import 'external financials' for "Labour" and "Assets" tabs in the "Planned" section, just like "Other" tab

We complete a large amount of centralised loads of data for forecasting purposes into "Other" tab, and it allows for greater transparency and control of data quality as these lines are locked for editing by a user. Unfortunately, the same function...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Add %ifInErrors, %ifOutErrors, %ifInDiscards, %ifOutDiscards as standard indicators for interfaces

These are industry standard metrics and should have been added years ago. All customers benefit since individual packet error/discard counts don't provide much context into the seriousness of the issue (e.g. 5 errors out of how many packets?) vs i...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Planned for future release

Able to query the Instana Events in Grafana

Hi team, There has been a need to have Instana Events in Grafana, the same way as we do right now in the Custom Dashboards, basically, be able to query Critical/Warning and present them in a Grafana widget. Thank you.
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Make Object Types Searchable by OID or indicator name

Right now if someone comes to me and asks me to enable crasSVCNumSessions / .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.392.1.3.35 it's kind of a nightmare. Under Object Types I cannot search by OID or via the indicator type "crasSVCNumSessions". The best I can currently do...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration

Make the select after REST inserts into the ObjectServer optional

When an insert into the ObjectServer is made using the REST interface, a select is performed afterwards to ensure the insert was successful. However, when the inserted Event is cancelled in a trigger before insert, there's an error message in the ...
7 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Instana Recipient List in Email Alert

Instana portal to check the recipient list. The client has raised the importance of having full visibility on who receives the alert without needing to navigate back to Instana, as this enhances transparency and efficiency in their workflow. This ...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Change units in downloaded csv file with recommendations

The units appear in KB and the client requests GB. It is a much more manageable and realistic unit given the current sizes.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Planned for future release

Ability to extract and subscribe to Commitments based on Account name or ID

Data extracts do not contain account name. No way to subscribe to expirations based on account name. would be helpful to have this data available so its easier to manage.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Add on new basic messaging protocol "MQTT" to NMS.

IOT is growing in the IT infrastructure monitoring and the end customer will hope he can consolidation monitor over all. MQTT is growing to IOT standard protocol and the other brands NMS have been added MQTT in their protocol. For example: Zabbix....
about 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration