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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 ...
6 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Create Custom Tabs with Template Choice

In Apptio Planning, we would like the ability to separate out different costs that require specific columns. Currently we do not have the ability to make required columns dynamic based off of data selection, even though its a contract, different c...
2 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Enable Sorting of List/Board Views by Progress Column

Currently, Targetprocess does not allow sorting entities by the Progress field in List/Board views. This limitation makes it difficult to quickly identify items with the least or most progress. It would be helpful to provide the ability to sort by...
2 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Submitted

Message-queue-based Telemetry Data Ingestion

Based on TS022887888, in addition to the existing "agent >> telemetry data >> acceptor >> rest of the backend" flow, customer would like to send raw telemetry data from Instana agent to a messaging queue; then Instana backend to ...
2 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

When calling the reports API, it would be preferred that the Business Dimension names were returned when using &useDimensionNames=true

Today, when calling the Reporting API, we have the system name returned (as per the call example below). It would be much better to be able to use the &useDimensionNames=true parameter to return the name seen in the UI and would save om furthe...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

PostgreSQL Backup & Restore Procedure/Script for Disaster Recovery and Cluster Failure Scenarios

Complete PostgreSQL database backup procedure. Complete PostgreSQL database restore procedure. IBM-supported backup and restore scripts or automation. Pre-backup validation and health-check procedures. Post-restore validation steps to conf...
6 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Add kubenetes.node.annotation TagDefinition for Global Custom Payload Catalog

Customer wants to select kubernetes node annotations tag for global custom payloads which does not exist currently.
6 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Helm Charts for IBM Concert Protect Installation

Requesting IBM provide and maintain officially supported Helm charts for IBM Concert Protect deployments on Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes platforms. Today, Concert Protect deployments require customers to perform more manual installation and co...
23 days ago in Concert 0 Submitted

Need to have support for Power9

The fact a large amount of customers are likely to purchase power 9 extended support, so we are potentally missing out on a large customer base to use the product
5 days ago in Concert 1 Submitted

Add support to Currency Code = HUF in Cloudability UI

Customer have billing files in Currency Code = HUF and they would like to add support for this currency in the Cloudability UI so all features ( Reporting, Dashboard, Anomaly, Budgeting, RightSizing) are shown in HUF currency
2 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration