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Enabling the option of ordering SLOs by status

We would like to have the option to order SLOs by status AND/OR having the change to filter those which have their budget exhausted. This feature at the Service Levels panel would make the tools more user-friendly, in my opinion.
15 days ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

Limit the number of children events in Scope Based Event Grouping Policy

Currently, any number of children events can be added to a parent event or group using Scope Based Event Grouping. At present, 100s of events can be grouped under a single parent group. However, there should be a way to limit the number of childre...
15 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Include Disk USED vs Provisioned as a rightsizing recommendation

As a new rightsizing opportunity, for customers who have enhanced CW metrics enabled on their EC2 instances could we look to including a capability to check the actually utilized disk vs what was provisioned, eg: you're only using 10GB of a 1TB pr...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

For SevOne DI Network Performance Monitoring & Diagnostics views, create performance health score summary representations at the device and location level (i.e. Jitter, Latency, MoS, etc.)

Would create a Top level Executive, Engineering Capacity and Operational Management service health performance views based on provided locations/sites/devices
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

ML: Auto JE Filtering in GL and Cost Pool Mapping Using Some Field Combinations

Some customers face challenges in identifying which journal entries are related to IT spend and in mapping cost pools within the GL, as the granularity of accounts and cost centers is insufficient. With following functionality, many customers coul...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Collect WebSphere PMI metrics in z/OS Instana host agent

The Instana host agent in Linux can collect WebSphere PMI metrics of the JDBC connection pool (PoolSize, WaitingThreadCount, UseTime, WaitTime, etc.). This function is missing in the z/OS host agent even with Omegamon integration. Customers requir...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent / IBM Z 2

Create additional fields for interfaces collected by the SevOne Observer for AIOps

1) In the current version of the SevOne Observer, there is no way to associate interface into a resource group. There is no field to identify what device a interface belongs to. A field should be added to the interface record that includes the dev...
23 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Allow for defining custom date and time formats. This should be globally or per tenant. Maybe have a few predefined formats to choose from. Maybe have ISO 8601 as the default. Let us choose the default time zone as UTC regardless of our local time zone. This should cover all places where a date and time is displayed - unless it came from an external source like in metadata. Maybe let a different format be chosen per widget if needed.

Having a consistent format across all tools would be very nice to have, so being able to define it in DI would help in that. Having everything default to UTC would be very nice since 100% of our reports are displayed in UTC and the SevOne cluster ...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Concurrent logging on DASH portal enabled but limited to a configurable number

Users require having concurrent sessions enabled and set to never expire. However, with this configuration, the number of active sessions can continuously grow, potentially leading to memory leaks. To address this, we need an option to limit the n...
16 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Anomoly detection for incorrect pricing being received from vendors

Recent pricing anomolies in dev/test SKU pricing for certain Intel SKUs in North Switzerland resulted in 'incorrect' optimisation opportunities being presented to customer. Whilst the fault was with Microsoft and their pricing, the impact was seen...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted