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Support for new IBM Power11 Systems

Since the release of the Power11 platform, Turbonomic has also needed to support the new version of HMC as a target, in order to meet customer demand for upgrades or migrations to the new P11 platform.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM Delivered

Export & Import User Alert Preferences Across IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4.x Environments

Provide a supported method to export and import user‑specific alert preferences across CP4AIOps 4.x environments.(Dev → Preprod → Prod). UI‑based / script-based export/import Supported REST API for user alert preferences Inclusion of user al...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Delivered

Request for Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL 8.0.11 tracing support

Hello, We are doing an Instana POC, and we need your support on the .NET Npgsql tracer. The application to be monitored is deployed on AWS ECS Fargate. Also, it connects to AWS Aurora (Postgres) DB using the Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL 8...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing Delivered

Enable API access to alert comments (journals) in Watson AIOps.

In our current migration from Netcool OMNIbus to Watson AIOps, we have identified the lack of an API to programmatically retrieve historical alert comments (journals). This capability is essential for audit purposes, operational traceability, and ...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Delivered

Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent Delivered

Integration between Concert Workflows and Ansible Automation Platform

Is useful because actually Concert Workflows is integrated only with Ansible Tower (that use different API). Using the Ansible Tower authentication and building blocks in Concert are not working with Ansible Automation platiform (Looking at the An...
9 months ago in Concert Workflows Delivered

Kong API Tracing

In Instana, Kong API gateway monitoring is limited in basic metrics moniotring but not support for tracing. However, from our Instana In Instana, the current monitoring capabilities for Kong API Gateway are limited to basic metrics and do not supp...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing Delivered

Allow Napalm integration to take in arguments

At this time, the Napalm integration does not accept optional arguments for it's drivers. This idea will add a field to the block or authentication to allow users to provide these arguments. The specific use case from the case was to be able to us...
5 months ago in Concert Workflows Delivered

BOA - Admin can not create nested right click tools in CP4AIOPS

Creating a sub-menu feature is per user and there is no way for Admins to create a right-click menu structure which is visible to all users. In normal operations , tools are created by admin and then given role based access to the users. As users ...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Delivered

Request to support GCP Pubsub for message bus integration

We are standardizing on GCP pubsub as the message bus standard for northbound integration between CP4AIOPS and ServiceNow . We would like to have native API integration capability for GCP pubsub for publishing to and subscribing from topics . http...
28 days ago in Concert Workflows Delivered