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Enforce consistency across Automation Workflow Policy definitions

There is a lack of consistency across Policies when defining Automation workflows. For example, when creating a Database policy, there are four categories of workflow: Cloud DB scale (no toggle) Database suspend actions Database reconfiguration ac...
about 10 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

Need logged in user information available in tools/actions in cp4aiops

we have to validate the logged in user when a tool or action is ran against a particular alert. For that functionality to work , we need the logged in user as parameter to validate before the tool is ran.
about 15 hours ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted

ITCAM MQ cfg SET QUEUE NAME should have a way to exclude queues

Currently the SET QUEUE NAME option in the MQ agent .cfg file is only able to include queues. This makes it difficult to exclude specific queue names such as SYSTEM.AUTH.DATA.QUEUE. Being able to use regular expressions in the selection of queues ...
about 15 hours ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 Submitted

Enhance Dashboard Table Widget to Support Application Perspectives, Services, and Endpoints

The current Table Widget (Public Preview) supports infrastructure and platform entities but does not support displaying application-level entities such as services, endpoints, or application perspectives. Customers frequently want to create operat...
1 day ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Add functionality in v3 API for Device Mover

Currently, Device Mover only works from the GUI, there are no API endpoints. Having the ability to use the API would allow a lot of device moves to be scheduled via script without needing to manually set up each one in the GUI
1 day ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Submitted

Add widget support for existing scorecard data to be shown on dashboards

Frequently have meetings with individual leaders of our software development teams. We currently have over 60 software teams and it would be very beneficial to have scorecards and ranking data for just their squads embedded in the dashboards we re...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Submitted

Add a send test alert button in the monitors notification settings

When I set up a monitor and connect it to my email notification list, I have no way to confirm the alert will actually reach my team. Right now the only way to test it is to wait for a real outage, or manually force one of my endpoints down to tri...
1 day ago in NS1 Connect / Managed DNS Under review

New policy setting to control moveSucceedRecordExpiredSeconds

We want to be able let the client say "take actions more quickly in this cluster, or for these VMs." Currently, we can adjust moveSucceedRecordExpiredSeconds, but this is a global configuration option and only applies to on-prem Move actions. The ...
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

Turbo storing historical resource data for clusters and namespaces that are no longer present.

I would like to propose an enhancement to Turbonomic around the retention and visibility of historical resource data for Kubernetes clusters and namespaces that have been deleted or are no longer present in the cluster. In customer environments, i...
2 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs Future consideration

Drill down into the details for widgets

Currently No maximize view option available for charts in App perspective or mostly all widgets in Instana default dashboards. Client can see Latency spikes, erroneous calls in time series widgets, but to view the list of erroneous calls, or list ...
2 days ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration