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Provide Ability to Control or Eliminate Product Update Pop-Ups

Not all users use the functionality that the popup refers to causing confusing. Privacy concerns around surveys or pop-ups requesting a response drive the desire to control who and when these pop-ups appears. Would like the ability to control whic...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Future consideration

vSphere sensor should be able to monitor multiple vCenter environments

Most customers have multiple vCenter environments. With the current design, customers must dedicate multiple VMs in order to monitor multiple vCenter environments. This is a waste of resources and means that the customer must dedicate multiple ser...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Provide the ability for sheduled reports to send the results as a CSV file.

Currently, reports scheduled from Data Insight are sent as PDF attachments via email. However, I would like these attachments to be in CSV format instead. This change would make it easier to import the report data into Excel. This functionality is...
5 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Provide manual sorting order for matchTokens values entered into a rule via the UI

matchTokens processing on event reception halts after the first resource matching a token is found. This provides an implicit ordering of token values to be entered from most-specific to most-generic. Achieving this is trivial when creating matchT...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Functionality already exists

Security: Provide Option to restrict Logins to one per user

Currently, AIOps does not prevent a single user from logging in multiple times using e.g. different browsers and/or different hosts (phone, laptop etc). This is desirable for many use-cases but violates a single-login-per-user policy. Many organis...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 5 Functionality already exists

Support for Apache Tomcat Sensor on native IBM i agent

This is beneficial to support tracing on Tomcat for java based web applications.
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Future consideration

Enable the Netcool Ping Probe to read the PingFile via http(s) or ftp as per the rules files.

We have multiple ping servers due to the number of servers that need to be verified and network restrictions. Management of distributed rules/lookups is made easy as NC_RULES_HOME is set to an http site, hence rules can be centrally published and ...
8 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Azure HD Insight Monitoring Support

Now, Instana can't support HD Insight Service monitoring via Azure API. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/hdinsight/ Many customer have HD Insight usecase of IoT environment.
8 months ago in Instana / Azure 2

Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard

Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard, From the attached screenshot, you can observe it does not have metric for memory and cpu usage of a deployment, service, daemonset. Please add it to all avai...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

Ability to export SevOne Object Rules to a file using tools like SevOne-export command

Customer is looking for a better way to export configuration to a file and import then later in case they need to configure Object rules from scratch
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration