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Improving Kubernetes Alerting

Status quo Built-in event ("Kubernetes Pod condition status") for when a Kubernetes pod reports 'Not Ready' state for more than one minute. Desired Ability to get alerted when pods created within last 30 minutes reports 'Not Ready' state for more ...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Kubernetes 1 Functionality already exists

IBM Runbook Automation (RBA) - execute runbooks against multiple targets in one API call

Why is it useful? - We have many thousands of servers where script automations are used, we'd like to hit multiple servers in one API call to execute a runbook - right now it's one API call per server (target) Who would benefit from it? - All cust...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Functionality already exists

Monitor and or lock down actions on variable tables

A user set one of their variable tables as the default table and we would like to be able to be alerted on this action at the minimum or at a maximum lock down this action so that only certain users can perform this action.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Authentication options

Since GitHub has been integrated and used in Instana, we can have GitHub as one of the authentication method in Instana. This process can avoid multiple AD/SSO configurations in tools/applications.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

Password encryption in configuration.yaml file

HI Team, It is one the audit highlights not to have password mentioned as plain text in configuration file. Kindly include feature or way to have encryption password in configuration.yaml without need to purchase separate license. Regards Harpreet
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Functionality already exists

DWC Sharing boards with groups

Users can create custom boards which are useful to display multiple queries at once, but currently these boards can be shared only among DWC roles, which are very large scopes. It would be usefull if one can share his custom board among users belo...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 2 Functionality already exists

To export all certified OID's with respect to Object types and certified KPI's in Sevone

Hi Team, Appreciated your all idea's . One more suggestion we required to provide that for future versions is to add option like "To export all certified OID's with respect to Object types and certified KPI's in Sevone" So it will be useful to kee...
about 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 4 Functionality already exists

Allow capability to change TimeZone

Please allow capability to change the timezone. We have multiple teams globally and each of them see instana which shows time in their own timezone.But while reviewing together, most of the time we want to change it to one timezone, say EST so tha...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Functionality already exists

Subnet flows in bulk

In menu Administrator > Flow configuration > Network Segment Manager This feature can add subnet one by one but the customer has more than 10K subnet, It very hard to add these one by one So I need to NMS can add/edit/delete also can multipl...
over 2 years ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 1 Functionality already exists

Add User and Domain to Explore Area of Workload Designer.

Add User and Domain objects to the Explore Area in the Workload Designer. When opening the TWSd DWC Workload Design in v10.1, the Explore area displays boxes for objects listing how many there are of each object. You can easily click on any one of...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists