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Identify, similar to AWS and Azure tags/labels, where GCP LABEL values are being defined by prefixing the GCP Label KEY with that information

(I use tags and labels interchangeably, but i do mean that we use GCP Labels) For AWS, account level tags/labels are prefixed like: cldy:aws:accountleveltag:cost_center. For Azure subscription level tagslabels are prefixed like: cldy:azure:subscri...
about 2 hours ago in Cloudability / Governance 0 Submitted

Automated shrinking and Expansion (dynamic resizing) of Block Storage

We often focus on rightsizing compute resources, particularly VMs, as part of our cloud optimization strategy. However, there is also significant opportunity in optimizing storage. Solutions like ‘Lucidity’ provide automated block‑storage manageme...
about 4 hours ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation 1 Submitted

Provide safe way to execute certain tasks which had been automated prior to 7.0 as a root user

Root access removed in NMS 7.0+ breaks customer automation workflows, particularly certificate renewal automation. As certificate lifecycles decrease, manual renewal becomes unsustainable without a least-privilege alternative. Operational Risk Cer...
about 5 hours ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Submitted

Allow for exclusion of k8s platform metrics by namespace

Today, APM mode can be disabled for whole k8s namespaces. However, metric data collection for basic namespace stats (at the platform level) is always collected. Sometimes customers use name spaces as a build or temporal environment with highly ela...
about 5 hours ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Integrate AWS Service Health Data into Instana

When the inciden happens, our client understand that is a regional incident or just specific node in their environment. So ingest the data from the Amazon Service Health and show it related component in the instana. https://health.aws.amazon.com/h...
about 6 hours ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Assign a runbook to incident

Today we need send a message by a webhook when an incident is created/updated, currently we are using "Invoke IBM Tivoli Netcool/Impact" but we want to aviod use impact and solve whole workflow in AIOPs In Automation-> Policy Template currentrl...
about 7 hours ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Need the ability to dynamically populate Teams access

The customer has the need for the access controls for Teams to be dynamically populate. The customer has strict naming conventions. Those naming standards can be applied to things like tags, application names, website names, etc. The expectation i...
about 8 hours ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Need the ability to dynamically populate Teams access

The customer has the need for the access controls for Teams to be dynamically populate. The customer has strict naming conventions. Those naming standards can be applied to things like tags, application names, website names, etc. The expectation i...
about 8 hours ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Submitted

Need the ability to dynamically populate Teams access

The customer has the need for the access controls for Teams to be dynamically populate. The customer has strict naming conventions. Those naming standards can be applied to things like tags, application names, website names, etc. The expectation i...
about 8 hours ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Submitted

Cloudability should be able to read standardized CMDB data from the enterprise Data Lake

At present, Cloudability supports reading data from several data sources, but Data Lake is not one of them. Shell uses Cloudability Premium, and needs to read CMDB data that is residing in a Data Lake, and is refreshed there frequently.
about 8 hours ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted