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Ability to verify the expiration date of the “update access keys” from the Hardware Management Console

This feature enables the verification of the expiration status of the “update access keys” within the Hardware Management Console. It ensures that administrators can monitor and prevent interrupted access to system updates and hardware management ...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Under review

Local binding mode support for Local monitoring for MQ deployed in OCP cluster

At the moment Instana agent only supports client binding mode for locally monitored OpenShift deployed MQ.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mq#common-scenarios This required agent configuration...
4 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

Request for ec2 permissions be added: DescribeInstances permission to be provided for all AWS linked accounts, which would be needed to determine whether a given instance was explicitly terminated.

The client was experiencing an issue with the recommendations that Cloudability shows. In the Optimize section there is a subsection called Rightsizing, which is where we can see the optimization recommendations based on the resources we have in t...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Functionality already exists

Enhance connection to Kafka (e.g. Apache Kafka API, Enhance existing method)

The primary goal is to create a data pipeline to send network incidents to ServiceNow from Kafka leveraging Kafka. To successfully connect to the client's Kafka cluster, the connector must be configured to meet the following mandatory security and...
12 days ago in Concert Workflows 0 Under review

RBA plug-in doesn't have feature to detect white-spaces and handle appropriately in the json data provided as input to the RBA Action. When the Json is very large, the jq -r based extraction fails to detect whitespaces in json

One of the Action in Runbook which gets the Incident Json as an input parameter was failing with string length parsing issue while we were doing below to extract the sys_id from Incident JSON. echo $Commandout_2 | jq | grep -i http| grep -i sys_id...
12 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Filtering of Entities in Quick Add and available Processes when creating Projects

When adding more functionality into Targetprocess the available entites that a user may create through Quick Add grows rapidly. This makes this button cluttered and many entites are not relevant to developers or other team members, creating insecu...
12 days ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Submitted

Failed missing node should be displayed in the InfrastructureMap to attract attention

This is the request from the banking client after they executed the failure-recovery test of DB node. This request is not for how we can notified on the failure, but for improving the display of the Infrastructure map. -- During the test, they dis...
12 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Expand Cldy Container Insights to ECS

A large portion of our container usage is using ECS. It would be helpful for the Cldy Container Insights to work with ECS.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Future consideration

Instana must provide a "Matching Operator" that should be a 'NOT' (The 'NOT' is not available in the Instana UI drop down) for host entity types

Bradesco customer is moving from ITM into the realm of Instana. There are currently using several thresholds that involves checking a disk NOT equal to /disk-path-here. For example look at the below ITM situations; i) *IF *VALUE KLZ_Disk.Inodes_Us...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 4 Functionality already exists

Optimazation Filter Builder area Conditions / Dependent

More than 1000 users work on our Netcool Tivoli system CA-EM with version 8.1.0.35. To organize the work, the filter function is very much used here. Currently over 1000 global filters and even more private filters are used. We want to optimize th...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review