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Enable the customization of fields for alerts coming from Instana in Watson AIOps, so that custom payloads and additional data can be fully utilized in direct integrations.

Currently, when integrating alerts from Instana into Watson AIOps, there is a critical limitation: only a set of predefined fields are transferred, and important custom information contained in Instana's custom payloads is not mapped or visible in...
12 days ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

We want the ability to configure or override default retention period for Instana backend data dabases for traces/metrics data. For example: We want to store only 7 days of data, and free up EBS space on 8th day.

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 ...
6 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Deploy and upgrade all the components in Instana Backend on Openshift with a single Operator

We need to simplify the upgrading and deploying procedure for INSTANA Backend on Openshift, A standard Openshift Operator could be the solution. It should allow to install the components and to upgrade it and the components as a standard Operator ...
28 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

IBM Concert SaaS support Private Link

It is better for Concert to provide private Link option for its service, like other IBM SaaS solution such as Instana or HCP Vault.
about 5 hours ago in Concert 0 Submitted

Operational Recovery Cloud Archive (ORCA) Integration

API Reference: https://nasa.github.io/cumulus-orca/docs/developer/api#internal-reconcile-report-phantom-api-output
about 18 hours ago in Concert Workflows 0 Planned for future release

Need to be able to select which libs to attach to a pod

Dear colleagues, we have a customer who runs hundreds of .net pods in a cluster and just a few ruby, nginx, nodejs... containers. they actively use Autotrace Webhook. At the moment they reached the point where excessivve numebr of .Net application...
about 20 hours ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Submitted

Dropdown for label filters in Container

Currently in label filters, customer needs to type out the values, the request is to give a dropdown of options to choose from and to also enable multi select in a single go rather than having multiple filters which support one value per dimension
about 20 hours ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow for BYOD/FOCUS format data in Plans

Customers expect features to work when they bring in the data to Cloudability for spend. If there is spend data, they want to be able to budget against it. Customers want to be able to see the actual spend against the budget for the FOCUS/BYOD dat...
about 20 hours ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Incorporate Custom Field Constraints Mashup into UI Directly

The custom field constraints mashup provides really valuable functionality, but it's difficult and time-consuming to use and can be inflexible. It would be a great help if the constraints could be incorporated directly into field set up. I have ma...
about 21 hours ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Submitted

It will be great if Cloud Total Cost / TBM Studio has the feature to copy table from another table

It will be great if Cloud total Cost / TBM Studio has the feature to copy table from another table (Just like how we can create a new copy report from an existing report. This will help during configuration in multiple ways: a. When we realize tha...
about 23 hours ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted