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Enable Instana AI Features with Customer‑Managed LLMs

Currently, Instana already provides valuable capabilities such as incident summarization, which are extremely useful for daily operations and troubleshooting. However, the integration with large language models is tightly coupled to IBM Watson, an...
11 days ago in Instana / Integrations Future consideration

Filter Metric and Dimension Availability based on User Credential

The volume of available metrics and dimension can be overwhelming for the average user, who likely need just a small subset. For example, its possible to have 6+ different cost metrics available to use in reporting - it's likely users should just ...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

Configuration option to preserve ifOperStatus data polled during ifLastChange updates

In the current implementation, SevOne discards all polled data for a given polling interval whenever it detects an update to ifLastChange. Although this behaviour is designed to maintain data consistency, it introduces a significant limitation for...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration

Extending Sustainability Metrics in IBM Turbonomic for Kubernetes and Workload Controllers

Idea: Currently, IBM Turbonomic provides comprehensive sustainability information for virtual machines, including energy and carbon footprint data, as well as the impact of optimization actions on these metrics. However, to fully achieve our susta...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Sustainability Future consideration

Support for Power Enterprise Pool (PEP) on PowerVM Targets

PEP on IBM Power systems, is a technological solution that allows you to flexibly manage computing resources (processors, memory) on multiple Power servers within the same farm, aggregating the capabilities of multiple machines into a single share...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) Future consideration

Allow customization of alert colors in Data Insight

Currently, alert severity colors in SevOne Data Insight (Critical, Major, Minor, Warning, etc.) are fixed and cannot be customized. The existing Custom Themes feature only supports changing the Brand Color (a single global accent) and selecting a ...
2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) Future consideration

Latency (round trip delay )PPM for pairs to be ignored if utilizing the link >80%

we need to add utilization of interfaces on STMicroelectronics account , stmicro this in order to set condition so if the utilization either TX or RX is = > 80% the ticket/alarm not to be raised.
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) Future consideration

Cloudability UI in Spanish language

Spanish speaking countries represents an important market for IBM, and there is significant growth in the adoption of Cloudability , which would justify offering the tool's interface in the local language. Customers should be able to choose their ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Other Future consideration

Add ability to have multiple runs for 'Recurring Updates for Editable Tables'

At the moment, Editable Tables can only have one schedule for recurring updates. At most, this can be run hourly. However, we have a use case where we would like recurring updates to occur every 15min so that it's more 'real time' for our end user...
4 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX Future consideration

Prediction of alerts

The operator wants to know when the next alert is expected. Currently, the temporal model already contains information about the pattern identified in a group of alerts:- Alert A arrives at time N- Alert B arrives N time after alert A- Alert C arr...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Future consideration