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Support Cross Series Aggregation - SLO Infrastructure Count Metadata

We would like to request support for cross-series aggregation in Instana Infrastructure SLOs.The customer operates as a service provider (cloud services) and has contractual SLAs with its clients. The main requirement is to determine whether a mon...
6 days ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

Add SharePoint Connector to Datalink

Background and Reason for Request: Currently, it is possible to integrate data from SharePoint folders using the existing "REST Service" connector. However, this method only supports Client Secret authentication and does not support Certificate-ba...
10 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 1 Submitted

Reporting on Many:Many Entities

We run across this issue frequently where when entities have a many:many relationship it makes reporting difficult. We need the ability to choose the hidden "link" entities as the basis of the report (this is already possible with Team Members and...
6 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports 1 Submitted

Start using VolumeStalledIOCheck as a possible metric to calculate EBS availability (SLO)

To improve accuracy of created SLO rules for this service type, the VolumeStalledIOCheck is one of the possible additional metrics that can help on this case. "This alarm helps you monitor the IO performance of your Amazon EBS volumes. This check ...
27 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

The DNS Plugin needs to monitor DNS-related metrics in SevOne NMS

The DNS plugin needs to monitor the following DNS-related metrics in SevOne NMS: Delegation SOA synchronization DNSSEC validity RRSIG expiry
15 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Add word wrap or hover over capability to new view

There are many columns that can have a lot of text and adding word wrap would help so that you dont have to expand the column which then makes it farther to scroll.
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Cleanup leftover files from previous version during future upgrades.

When upgrading IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS), vulnerability remediation updates often install newer component versions while leaving older versions on the system. For example, when a newer OpenSSL version is deployed, a new directory (such as OpenS...
10 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Support Google Cloud Workload Identity Federation for Google Cloud Service Account Authentication in IBM Turbonomic

IBM Turbonomic currently requires a Google Cloud service account JSON key file to authenticate when configuring Google Cloud workload monitoring, as described in the IBM documentation: IBM Turbonomic – Setting up a Google Cloud service account for...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Add SHA-256 Authorization Protocol Support for SNMPv3 Trap v3 Receiver in IBM SevOne NMS

Currently, IBM SevOne Trap v3 Receiver supports only the following Authorization protocols: NONE (usmNoAuthProtocol) MD5 (usmHMACMD5AuthProtocol) SHA (usmHMACSHAAuthProtocol) The request is to enhance the Trap v3 Receiver configuration by adding...
10 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1

Implement Green Color Coding for Clear and Closed Alerts in CloudPak for AIOps

Description: The alert status display in CloudPak for AIOps would benefit from improved visual clarity through standardized color coding. We recommend setting green as the default color for Clear and Closed alerts to provide better visual distinct...
4 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review