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Enable IBM AIOps to represent and manage inter-domain incidents through a parent-child hierarchy, linking a root-cause incident to related child incidents across network domains and their corresponding ITSM tickets.

Large network failures can generate separate incidents across multiple domains, such as Transport, IP, Core, and RAN, even when they originate from the same underlying fault. Presenting these incidents independently makes it difficult for Network ...
20 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Under review

Allow users to clone and customize built-in events

Allow users to clone Instana built-in events and modify their conditions, thresholds, and notification behavior, while keeping the original built-in event unchanged. Problem Built-in events do not always match operational requirements, and users c...
20 days ago in Instana / Alert Future consideration

Allow recipients to be CC'd in Email Subscriptions

Currently we select recipients for Email Subscriptions for a report. Apptio ends up sending individual emails to recipients. There are cases where we want to send monthly Cost Center reports to respective Cost Center Owners, and keep the FBP/Finan...
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio Submitted

Allow Casting in Extended Domain Entities (ExD)

We want to create a custom unit to display only OPEN related Risks, but currently Casts are supported by native entities only. Extended domain entities (ExD) don't support Casts. We would like Casting in Extended Domain Entities (ExD).
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Other Submitted

DI can export reports as CSV like NMS, not just PDF format.

NMS can export as CSV & PDF, DI only exports as PDF, DI is ultimately replacing NMS in regard to reports etc., DI should support same functionality I would think.
8 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) Future consideration

Add regex to Account name filter for Group creation

Currently, when you create a Group and use the Account Name filter, you're presented with a checkbox list for selecting specific Accounts. This approach does not scale and does not support creation of a dynamic group that discovers newly added acc...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Under review

Idle Resources Namespace Labels Available in Cost Reporting

In Cloudability Cost Reporting, idle cluster costs are aggregated into a synthetic IDLE RESOURCES namespace row. This row does not carry any namespace-level Kubernetes labels and all label columns show (not set), even when the underlying real name...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Under review

Support Multiple Authentication for SSO

Why is it useful?  Modern authentication methods such as FIDO2 and passkeys are phishing-resistant and generally provide stronger protection than passwords alone.   Who is it for?  Customers using Passkeys, FIDO2 security keys,...
about 1 month ago in NS1 Connect / Managed DNS Under review

Surface the GCP Project Number as a vendor dimension

We are wanting to surface the Project Number as it aligns with AWS/Azure Account ID/Subscription ID. It is a stable and system-controlled unique identifier which doesn't allow confusion between GCP Project Name and GCP Project ID which are often s...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

How to monitor MinIO with Instana IBM?

MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage solution released under the GNU AGPL v3.0 license. Designed for speed and scalability, it powers AI/ML, analytics, and data-intensive workloads with industry-leading performance. S3 API C...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release