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Eliminate the distinction between NULL and BLANK values

Today incoming blanks are of one type <BLANK> and all formula blanks are another <NULL>. The workaround, once identified, is to use an IF statement to set both values to blank. It would be great if a solution could be implemented to co...
13 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Bring Your Own S3 Bucket Support for IBM FinOps Agent (Containers Metric Deployment)

The IBM FinOps Agent currently requires outbound connectivity to transmit container metrics, which presents challenges for private or highly regulated Kubernetes environments. We propose introducing a “Bring Your Own S3 Bucket” (BYOS3) deployment ...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Monitor WebSphere Application Server Thread Usage Percentage with Alerting and Exclusion Support

To further enhance operational visibility, we request an enhancement to monitor thread usage in WAS as a percentage metric with alerting capabilities. Specifically, we propose the following features: Monitor the number of free threads in each WebS...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Provide minimal Helm charts for Instana Enterprise Operator and Instana Backend

Summary Our CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins) and artifact-mirroring process are Helm-centric. Today, Instana Enterprise/Backend requires copying individual images and using kubectl instana to render/apply manifests. We request official minimal Helm charts...
26 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Enforce Topology APIs to use AIOps instance certificates

Currently when using CA issued certs, the APIs and underlying components when they spin up new pods, the URL keeps changing. The self signed certs used inside aiops and pods are not allowed by customers security posture. It is not possible to requ...
14 days ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Submitted

Have custom metric available in container section

Custom metric is the default metric as it included the chargeback
14 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Request for improvement of EIF Probe Event Format

Environment: Netcool OMNIBUS 8.1, EIF Prove 1.13.0 After updating EIF Prove from 1.13.0 to 1.14.0, some of the triggers went wrong. We figured out that it was caused by APAR( IV03958 , IV75418 ) included in EIF Prove 1.14.0. Since customers has al...
9 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Allow multiple custom rules setup including http.header fields e.g. X-Instana-Service

We run multitechnology service architecture and therefore want to be able to map instana service name on multilevel custom rules e.g. http.header fileds.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

We would like to see labels / annotations at a pod-level instead of a cluster-level via report or API

Our internal team tags their Kubernetes clusters at a pod level because they track their client's usage via pods since it's more granular. However, right now Cloudability reports and API pulls only give us access to cluster level labels & anno...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Adding a Date Picker to Date data columns in Editable tables

This would enhance the user interface experience and it is almost a standard in many applications to select a date using a date picker.
18 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted