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Container Cost Allocation Filters for Kubernetes Labels need to support all operators to help teams get insights on K8S clusters that have labels with similar or dissimilar values (Contains, Not Equals, Does Not Contain)

We have teams use Kubernetes labels that follow patterns to help them group similar clusters together (for example: MFG-A1, MFG-A2, ...). The current Filter for Labels on Container Cost Allocation only support the "equals" operator which causes a ...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Request Access to Report should have a Request Access button or just show the report owner

Users are trying to access reports that are not shared with them and they do not know who the owner is so they can request access. This leads to requests to our team to identify those report owners. The Request Access to Report prompt should have ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Need a simple version of Copy command in Alert Viewer to only copy to clipboard what is shown in the view

Copy command embedded in the Raw tab of the Information section in Alert Viewer copies the raw json dump of the alert to clipboard. This involves a lot of data that is irrelevant to the user forcing them to remove the unnecessary information befor...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Enhance Validation Rules with JavaScript Execution for Better Flexibility

As an ATP Targetprocess developer, I greatly appreciate the Targetprocess product for its robust features and customization options through automation rules, validation rules, metrics, and mashups. However, I have encountered challenges with the c...
28 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

Ability to configure or override default retention period for Instana backend data dabases for traces/metrics data.

Hi Team, Current Installation Type: We have installed custom edition of Instana, and we have below datastores installed in our AWS EKS cluster. These backend datastores are using EBS volume. Day by day the data volumes are keep on increasing, and ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Functionality already exists

Create an event for the SUSPECT STATE database metric in MS SQL

We need to create an event when the database is in SUSPECT STATE equal to YES and notify this state. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.305?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server In the Instana's event page, we canno...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Request for Trace Log Functionality

With the current product capabilities, it is not possible to capture logs of user actions. Since operation logs for various configuration changes are not available, it is impossible to identify, for example, who created a business mapping or when ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Future consideration

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...
8 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 ...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted