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RBAC for alert visibility, actionability, and group/incident behavior

[Full description of desired product behavior is in the attached file] Customers require desired an operating model that separates who can see an alert from who can manage an alert. A user may need broad visibility into alerts for awareness, coord...
3 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Planned for future release

Support API Key Authentication via HTTP Headers in Concert Workflows

The current design of Concert Workflows APIs requires API keys to be passed as query parameters in the URL. This approach exposes secrets in access logs Ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/concert/2.3.x?topic=using-apis Current (supported) behavior: ...
1 day ago in Concert Workflows Planned for future release

Collect Azure VM tags in addition to VM metadata

Instana currently collects Azure VM properties automatically within AZURE_METADATA (vmId, name, vmSize, and location), but VM tags are not included. Tags on other Azure resources are collected and appear in the UI correctly - apart from Azure VM T...
15 days ago in Instana / Azure Planned for future release

GCP cloud service agent being able to collect managed service tag\label information

Currently in GCP when using a cloud service agent to monitor managed services, the respective managed service tags\labels cannot be collected and sent to the instana backend with the corresponding managed service. This makes grouping services usin...
3 days ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

Show version via labels/annotations for the instana agent operator

Currently when downloading the instana agent operator from github (https://github.com/instana/instana-agent-operator/releases) the version is only contained in the image tag in images.txt Looking only add the manifests in instana-agent-operator.ya...
9 days ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

Commitment Support for AWS Database Savings Plans

AWS has introduced Database Savings Plans, a commitment-based discount model that reduces eligible managed database costs by up to 35% with an hourly $/hour commitment over a 1-year term, automatically applying each hour to eligible database usage...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

Commitment Support for Azure Database Savings Plans

Publicly announced today, this new commitment type offers up to 35% savings across a range of database services. See: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/finopsblog/announcing-savings-plan-for-databases-flexible-savings-for-modern-evolving-wo...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

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 ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Planned for future release

Support Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to enable secure, standardized AI assistant integration with Apptio.

We would like Apptio to support the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to enable secure and governed integration with AI assistants and LLM-based tools. MCP provides a standardized way for AI systems to discover and interact with enterprise tools and AP...
4 months ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability Planned for future release

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...
2 months ago in Concert Workflows Planned for future release

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