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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.
about 7 hours ago in Instana / Kubernetes Submitted

Sort Users and User Groups Alphabetically and Add Search Functionality in "Assign Owner" and "Assign User Group" Menus

We are requesting an enhancement to the Assign Owner and Assign User Group functionality in Alert Viewer. Currently, when users right-click an alert and select Assign Owner or Assign User Group, the displayed list of users and user groups is not s...
5 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Under review

Streamline "Take Ownership" Action: Auto-Acknowledge Alerts and Remove User Group Selection Pop-up

We are requesting an enhancement to the Alert Viewer Take Ownership workflow to reduce unnecessary operator actions and improve alert triage efficiency. Currently, operators must perform multiple manual actions to take responsibility for an alert ...
5 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Under review

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...
17 days ago in Concert Submitted

Provide a complete machine-readable image inventory for each Instana Custom Edition release

Problem Customers with controlled or revision-safe deployment processes need to know the complete set of container images required for a specific Instana Custom Edition release before deployment. The rendered Helm manifests do not provide the full...
15 minutes ago in Instana / Backend Enablement Submitted

Expose JBoss WAR Deployment Status as an Event and Alertable Metric

Instana currently displays the status of JBoss WAR deployments (OK/Failed) in the Web Deployments section, but this status cannot be used for alerting. We would like Instana to expose the WAR deployment status as a metric, event, or health signal ...
about 1 hour ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Ability to identify

Currently OCI Exadata databases are purchased similar to commitments, where blocks are reserved and paid for like a commitment expense e.g. microsoft sentinel. The actual Exadata units can be tagged, but produce 0% cost and there's no usage visibi...
about 9 hours ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing Submitted

Ability to rename subtabs on labor

Would like to be able to rename the data filter tabs (existing and planned) on the labor tab.
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

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...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Planned for future release

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
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Other Future consideration