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Campanion operator support at pod level

Customer would like to have companion operator to manage workloaad at pod level. they use git and crossplane to deploy and manage workload.

Persistent Visibility for Recently Offline Hosts

Summary: When a host goes down in IBM Instana, an alert is generated, and the host is marked as Unmonitored in the Agent view and shown in red on the Infrastructure map. However, after approximately five minutes, the host disappears from both view...
17 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Allow Probes to add dynamic custom fields to alerts in Watson AIOps that are visible in the details section.

n Netcool OMNIbus, it was possible to manually create new fields in the database (alerts.status) via insert operations, and then populate them through Probe rules. This allowed operators to enrich events with custom business-relevant data directly...
2 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

IBM supported OpenTelemetry collector for Windows Platform

GlobeLife is a windows platform organization. All of their applications run in Windows platform. They want to send logs from applications both in-house developed or COTS to Instana for best use for analysis. Currently there is a LINUX OpenTelemetr...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 1 Submitted

Apptio Datalink:::Cloudability Telemetry connector with TBM Studio as a source system.

While Cloudability telemetry allocations are powerful, the manipulations that are required to get the data into the precise format it expects can be non-negligible. An easy to deploy integration between TBM Studio and Cloudability Telemetry would ...
8 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Access Administration:::Integrate Row-Level Security concept into Access Administration

To simplify the implementation of Row-Level Security, create a user experience in Access Administration where an Administrator can assign visibility permissions either by selecting from a dimensions or dimensions manually, or mapping via their SSO...
8 days ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Calculation frequency set within transform pipeline

Increasingly with the ingestion of Cloud cost data and other operational data sources to Studio, customers may have certain data they want calculated daily or weekly, and other data that is only refreshed or needs to be calculated monthly. This id...
8 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Apptio:::All notification and subscription features should support slack

We currently do not natively support slack notifications, and users of Apptio products that are heavy slack users are required to manually configure slack notifications using API's and webhooks. This idea suggestion is to integrate Apptio's notifi...
8 days ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Improved notification and workflow attached to anomaly detection feature

The current anomaly detection feature in TBM Studio identifies row count changes, but does not have workflow built in to ensure closed loop resolution. This ideas suggestion is to create two options: 1) lightweight workflow built into Studio where...
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted