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Please support for parking function of OCI VM & DB

Now, Turbonomic release preview of OCI optimization function. But, it have not supported parking function yet for OCI. Japan market customer are strongly interested in parking function by turbonomic. *Cost reduction for cloud service and deveolpme...
20 minutes ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Parking Submitted

Support optimization function for OCI DBaaS

Now, Turbonomic release preview of optimization for OCI VM and Volume. But, it have not supported OCI DBaaS yet. Customer strongly hope supporting of OCI DBaaS (Oracle DB etc) optimization like a AWS, Azure, in Business in Japan Market.
about 4 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS Submitted

Access to public Artifactory repositories via web browsers is restricted due to company security controls.

Our company laptops have recently been migrated to a cloud‑native environment. Previously, we used specific URLs with dedicated credentials to download Instana and MQ‑related software. However, under the new setup, the credential pop‑up prompt is ...
about 5 hours ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

Add an option to export the list shown in the "Comparison Table" view of the Infrastructure tab

There is a need to export the list of hosts in the "Comparison Table". This support will be really handy when you have multiple hosts are defined in the system. Also, noticed that the default option shows 50 per page. If we select to show 100 per ...
about 5 hours ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Need to create the conversions in CP4AIOPS UI similar to Netcool DASH

Introduce a "Conversions" management capability within the CP4AIOps UI for Alerts and Incidents settings. This should allow administrators to: Define a mapping dictionary for specific fields or columns. Translate raw string/integer/boolean values ...
about 4 hours ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted

Need better alert content

When Events trigger and alerts are send to end users, there is a need to have important information as part of the alert. For example, let's say I setup a threshold to monitor for sustained CPU usage greater than 80%. When the Alert is sent, it is...
about 10 hours ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Leverage traceparent Header for Kafka Message Correlation

Using a commonly accepted header would better align with industry norms, and provide consistent convention for programmatic logging and correlation.
about 10 hours ago in Instana / Other Tracers Submitted

When scrolling through reports in BI and Cloudability Standard, keep the view tab frozen on the page.

It disappears when a user scrolls which can confusion for what view is shown, especially if a default view is attached, and the user is unaware of what the default view is.
about 10 hours ago in Cloudability / Other Submitted

Support for Custom Alert Channels in Instana

Today, to integrate Instana with other tools we rely on webhooks. However, the target tools are often not expecting the Instana payload format, which forces teams to develop custom adapters to transform the data before it can be consumed. In our c...
about 15 hours ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Support if-then logic in custom metric

Would make reporting MUCH more powerful
about 12 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio BI Submitted