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Cloudability Dashboard sharing should create link that preserves the settings of the FILTERS at top of page for 1-click DEEPLINK that can be shared via slack or email or put on wiki or generated programmatically creating URL with filtered argument

Why Useful? - More efficient and sharing of Database with filters selected to help recipient effortlessly see exactly what sendor wants with 1 click of DEEPLINK that retains the filtered settings. If there's a dashboard that has a filter for AWS A...
1 minute ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Submitted

Support for Google AI Vortex(Copilot CLI (Ideally open secure Coder in general for external AI)

The Constraint: The client cannot use IBM Bob anywhere in the remediation flow. Certifying Bob internally takes 6+ months. Google Vertex is their only approved AI provider.
1 day ago in Concert Submitted

Support for Deploying Concert on GKE helm based

Client has a Google Cloud strategy and therefore it is the only possible Deployment
1 day ago in Concert Submitted

CLDY Service Account Management Is Required, With Technical Owner Assignee to Manage API Key Management

Define a secure, scalable, and governance-compliant Cloudability service account operating model that enables delegated, read-only API access and API key management for application teams without relying on CLDY Admins or ongoing FinOps administrat...
1 day ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 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...
11 days ago in Concert Submitted

Infrastructure linking for MaxScale proxy mariadb

The proxy (MaxScale) operates between the application and the MariaDB instances, preventing Instana from correlating database spans with infrastructure entities. Thus, a MaxScale tracer/integration is necessary to facilitate the correlation with M...
7 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

Metrics not available for Customer Alerts

Built in Events can't be modified and not all metrics available for custom alert configuration. This is a blocker for enterprise wide threshold governance.
12 minutes ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Log SmartAlert Grouping limitation

Currently the log alert grouping is limited to a single dimension. GlobleLife is advanced used and require multi-dimentionsl grouping using Application, environment, host, error type, database, and support team. This will allow them to send the al...
2 minutes ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Instana Dashboard flexibility

Not all metrics available in all dashboard widgets. Dashboard customization is restricted and cannot fully combine business, application, infrastructure and log data in one view. This is critical for the executives to view all in one place.
less than a minute ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Support for FileStatsReceiver under IDOT collector for Windows

The file system can become burdened with high file usage when there are many stale files or missing files. The FileStatsReceiver helps identify stale or missing files in the system.
6 minutes ago in Instana / OpenTelemetry Submitted