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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...
4 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Needs more information

Enable CoPilot integration within Cloudability to directly pull reports and dashboards

Direct Integration: Cloudability should natively integrate with CoPilot to allow users get CoPilot data into cloudability and build reports and dashboards. Eliminate Workarounds: Current method relies on using Focus to bring data in, which is indi...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Needs more information

Request for Local User Registration (A feature to add users without requiring an SMTP server)

When adding (inviting) a local user to Instana, an SMTP server is required. In an air-gapped environment, there may be cases where the Self-Hosted Instana Backend does not have an SMTP server or cannot communicate with one. I would like to propose...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control Needs more information

Add multi route integrations

We need a way to enable the product to receive events/metrics/logs from public and private routes. Currently the product choses or enables only one route per webhook. The product should be able to ask which ingress to use for route exposer, so tha...
5 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Needs more information

Support for GCP PubSub in addition to Kafka on SevOne Data Publisher

We would like to make use of the performance data exposure using a message bus for northbound data transfer . It is much cheaper to use Google PubSub instead of a managed kafka instance . We would like IBM to develop an SDK/gRPC based PubSub conne...
9 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Needs more information

Smart Alert based on memory or CPU usage

We have already the possibility to create smart alerts based on the ratio between usage and limits or usage and request, but there is not an option to create an smart alert based on a static amount of memory MB or CPU cores. So lets say, create an...
22 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes Needs more information

Vendor Commitment burn-down tracking. Commitment> Budget> Spend calibration

Here at Sherwin Williams, we have a large number of commitments to spending on cloud products. We've built an ApptioBI dashboard that supports entering start>end dates, total commitment amount, and monthly spend. However, we have not found a wa...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Needs more information

Calculated Forecast Fields

Currently, Employee Benefit Expense is automatically calculated based on benefit rates by location entered in the Configuration page of Apptio. The calculation applies those rates to the salaries. Example: If Chicago benefit rate is 20% and Salari...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Needs more information

Reachability Metric

SevOne has a unique way of providing "Availability". What is desperately required is a "Reachability" metric that is just a basic snmp test that quickly highlights "possible network issue, device is down, credentials incorrect etc (and done from t...
9 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Needs more information

Ability to copy values in Resource Inventory UI

Cloudability’s Resource Inventory page should allow users to directly select and copy field values from the UI, such as resource name, instance ID, account, tags, region, and other displayed attributes. This would be very useful for FinOps, CloudO...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory Needs more information