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Infrastructure linking for MaxScale proxy mariadb

The proxy (MaxScale) operates between the application and the MariaDB instances, preventing Instana from correlating database spans with infrastructure entities. Thus, a MaxScale tracer/integration is necessary to facilitate the correlation with M...
2 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

To add in the Column Section in the Rightsizing Section the Potential Carbon Reduction for a specific Recommendation

To add a Column in the Rightsizing section an optin to see the Potential Carbon Reduction for any specific recommendation provided in Cloudability. Since this Potential Carbon Reduction is being provided by CSP's billings, this could be implemente...

Allow filter for "Invoice Date" within a "Dashboard"

This is useful for many reasons. Here is what prompted this idea request: 1. Cross-charge reconciliation - Applying "Invoice Date" as a filter to the entire dashboard will allow us to immediately reconcile invoiced costs for a given month. We can ...
about 20 hours ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Submitted

Merge rules should include guard rails to prevent creation of super nodes

When defining any merge rules, the platform should provide validation and guard rails for users & administrators during either configuration, dry-run or execution phases. Users and Administrators should be warned when a merge rule is likely to...
2 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted

Helm Charts for IBM Concert Protect Installation

Requesting IBM provide and maintain officially supported Helm charts for IBM Concert Protect deployments on Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes platforms. Today, Concert Protect deployments require customers to perform more manual installation and co...
7 days ago in Concert Submitted

Enable Service Composer to expose values exported by an Ansible Job Template activity (via set_stats artifacts) as linkable output parameters for downstream activities, matching the existing behavior of Terraform and Helm activities.

Description: In Service Composer (IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4.11.1, Infrastructure Automation), only Terraform and Helm activities publish output parameters that can be linked to downstream activities. The Ansible Job Template activity has input par...
2 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted

Out of the box field for Country that maps regions

There are many regions across the globe that customers can deploy their infrastructure. It would be good to have an out of the box field that maps each region to the country where the infrastructure is. All that is needed is to use the Region fiel...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Openshift HCP Monitoring

We can not Monitor Kubernetes control plane components, such as the API server, controller manager, scheduler, and etcd, run in a separate management cluster like Openshift HostedControlPlane setup.
2 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes Submitted

Namespace-Scoped Agent configuration

Based on my research, it is not possible to provide different configurations for agents deployed in a Kubernetes cluster. Currently, the Instana Agent operates primarily on a cluster-wide configuration.We propose/request a feature to enable differ...
2 days ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes Submitted

Add a 'Alternate Name' for DI Reports and have it available as Report Name alias or similar

As per title, in some scenarios, customers might require additional columns or attributes to refer to a report. We already offer similar features in other areas of the product like device's alternate names and even Tenant Display names. Having a s...
2 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) Submitted