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API enhancement | json support

the API is helpful for situations where using the console isn't possible or ideal (automation, programmatic access, etc.). ibm support said that json as an output is not supported. json as a format is foundational to programmatic operations and AP...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Detecting/Alerting on poisoned queues for IBM MQ

One of our top 4 banking customers in Australia had a Sev 1 incident last week, where their Internet Banking was down for 1 hour due to a poisoned queue. This was not detected by any monitoring tool and took some time to get to the root cause and ...
8 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Number of months until x date

The idea would be to have a dynamic counter, to make some advanced calculated metrics. The example is the running rate that needs to be achieved until the end of the contract.
13 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Customer would like to request the ability to leave comments in the Anomaly Detection screen, similar to the functionality available in the Rightsizing ROI screen.

In some cases, they need to record the analysis process or results, and assign follow-up actions to specific team members. Since not all users utilize tools like Jira or ServiceNow, having a way to manage such tasks directly within Cloudability wo...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Container Cost Allocation Based on Labels Instead of Namespaces

The customer has over 40 Kubernetes clusters with numerous shared resources within a single namespace across different cost centers. They would like the Kubernetes cost allocation feature to support allocation of resources based on labels, rather ...
25 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

GitOps integration: support for bitbucket+ArgoCD

We are starting a Turbonomic deployment in Intesa Sanpaolo; they asked for integration with their GitOps process to apply changes in RHOCP clusters; Turbonomic actions related to RHOCP target should be applied to their bitbucket repository instead...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Future consideration

Postgres database synchronization with Cassandra Database to maintain sync between Primary NOI 1.6.x & Secondary NOI 1.6.x clusters automation policies.

Issue - Secondary cluster Postgres DB is not in sync with the cassandra database restored in secondary from primary cluster, causing the Primary & Secondary clusters event policies out of sync, showing 404-Error when launching the patterns on ...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Correctly Calculate Parking Realized Savings

In the Executed Actions widget, the savings realized by suspend actions (as a consequence of a parking schedule) are incorrectly calculated. We downloaded the exported file and validated multiple cases. In the first place, it calculates the saving...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Add hours to SLO Objective lenght

We have a KPI that monitors the login failures and we need to define a SLO between 8 AM and 10PM, but with the current length options we cant do that. If its possible we would like to have the option to select specific dates that reoccur every day...
3 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Under review

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release