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Start using VolumeStalledIOCheck as a possible metric to calculate EBS availability (SLO)

"This alarm helps you monitor the IO performance of your Amazon EBS volumes. This check detects underlying issues with the Amazon EBS infrastructure, such as hardware or software issues on the storage subsystems underlying the Amazon EBS volumes, ...
about 13 hours ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

Add kubenetes.node.annotation TagDefinition for Global Custom Payload Catalog

Customer wants to select kubernetes node annotations tag for global custom payloads which does not exist currently.
about 23 hours ago in Instana / Kubernetes Submitted

PostgreSQL Backup & Restore Procedure/Script for Disaster Recovery and Cluster Failure Scenarios

Complete PostgreSQL database backup procedure. Complete PostgreSQL database restore procedure. IBM-supported backup and restore scripts or automation. Pre-backup validation and health-check procedures. Post-restore validation steps to conf...
about 4 hours ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted

Sort Users and User Groups Alphabetically and Add Search Functionality in "Assign Owner" and "Assign User Group" Menus

We are requesting an enhancement to the Assign Owner and Assign User Group functionality in Alert Viewer. Currently, when users right-click an alert and select Assign Owner or Assign User Group, the displayed list of users and user groups is not s...
6 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Planned for future release

Expose Real-Time Beacon Ingestion Health Signal to SaaS Tenants

Problem Statement As an Instana SaaS customer using End User Monitoring (EUM) for website and mobile app monitoring, there is currently no way to proactively verify that beacon data is being successfully ingested and processed by the Instana backe...
about 9 hours ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring Submitted

Verizon is requesting dashboard-friendly API capabilities for the Concert Operate / AIOps GET Alerts API

Background The Verizon SA360 application requires access to alert/event data from IBM Concert Operate / AIOps. SA360 provides an Alerts Dashboard used by Verizon NMC operators. These users do not access the AIOps native UI.  The dashboard mus...
about 12 hours ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted

Custom dashboard: External Access

Shared public/external read-only links secured with email OTP authentication (confirmation code sent via email or similar).
about 12 hours ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Custom dashboard mode: “Enable for mobile”

Mobile adaptability for the dashboard, translates to a Mobile-Responsive Dashboard Layout that automatically detects screen resolution and restructures the UI for handheld devices.  
about 13 hours ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Custom dashboard: Automated dashboard email scheduling

Reporting (New) Automated dashboard email scheduling (Image or PDF formats). Customers frequently need to deliver scheduled reports based on custom dashboards, especially in the absence of a comprehensive reporting capability. There is also no API...
about 13 hours ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

TV mode - Keep the option to expand a chart

In TV mode, the option to expand a graph to better visualize the metric is disabled.
about 13 hours ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted