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To avoid unnecessary events close and open during Instana agent restart

When I'm testing Instana agent restart OR stop/start, I've found lots of unnecessary event closed and opened. Before Instana agent restarted/stopped, there are lots of opened/outstanding events associated with that servers. After I stopped/restart...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 4 Functionality already exists

Cost Management Support for Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO)

Context: Cloudability currently provides dedicated cost visibility and allocation capabilities for Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA). This includes workload-level attribution across clusters, namespaces, deployments, and labels, enabling cus...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 2 Future consideration

Cloud pak for AIOps API support to update alert activity

Hi Team, We want to update the alert activity comments using API. The customer is looking for similar functionality like Netcool journal to update using API
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Topology-Driven Alarm Enrichment

The “Topology-Driven Alarm Enrichment (TDAE)” proposal introduces a native mechanism within IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps to enrich alarms directly using topology data, eliminating the need for manual enrichment rules or external Impact policies. The sy...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Support for databricks on AWS EKS

Databricks monitoring is supported in Azure and we need support for this on AWS EKS.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced dependency management solution to benefit from Relations/Linked Issues information

Today there are limitations in working with Relations if you want to effectively manage your dependencies within your organisation, and it is hard to get an overview. currently it is difficult to let go of the excel-sheet to keep track of dependen...
5 months ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 0 Submitted

Remove the version restrictions on multiple instances of AIOps on a single cluster

The product documentation for AIOps up to 4.13.1 states: Each new instance of IBM Cloud Pak for AIOpsthat you deploy on the cluster must be the same version or a more recent version than any already‑installed instances on the cluster. Older versio...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Better incident summaries and support for Sovereign LLM Models

We like the idea of Incident summaries as the description of CP4AIOPS incident that gets created out a number of alerts . Current incident summary do not replace the Incident name and description . We would like to see 1. Incident name and descrip...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Have a global settings that exclude the AWS Tax

Have in the global settings an option to exclude tx (such as AWS Tax) from all dimensions/metrics. This would allow customer to avoid using BM to exclude the tax. It would be nice that this condition, if enabled, is applied when the cur is processed.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Bi‑Directional Navigation Between Rightsizing ROI and Optimize → Rightsizing

Users who receive rightsizing recommendation notifications (e.g., via email) are often deep‑linked directly into Rightsizing ROI, scoped to a specific resource. While this provides valuable financial and ROI context, it breaks the natural workflow...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration