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Maintenance windows

Our client requires: An intuitive interface for managing maintenance windows (MW): This should allow the organization of time periods during which specific applications or infrastructure are under maintenance. For example, the MW “Business days...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Create an event for the SUSPECT STATE database metric in MS SQL

We need to create an event when the database is in SUSPECT STATE equal to YES and notify this state. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.305?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server In the Instana's event page, we canno...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

API Request for Ericsson OMC - Redfish

This request is to provide Ericsson's OMC - Redfish APIs to the already existing Redfish Integration. At this time, the Redfish Integration does not include Ericsson's APIs. Provided is a document covering the Ericsson API: Ericsson_redfish.ziphtt...
18 days ago in Concert Workflows 1 Planned for future release

Provide the ability to Archive Linked Accounts which havent been Advanced Credentialed and have been removed from CSP

Provide the ability to Archive Linked Accounts which havent been Advanced Credentialed and have been removed from CSP. These accounts show up in UI with Red X, which gives the appearance that not all of the accounts have been Advanced Credentialed...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Planned for future release

Change the MSGW filtering by excluding the jobs in MSGW without a reply needed

Customers might have a few (or more) jobs in MSGW that don't actually need a reply. When configuring the MSGW monitoring in the INSTANA configuration.yaml, you can only define status/subsystem, so everything in MSGW would be considered, generating...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Planned for future release

Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 6 Planned for future release

Add Usage Family/Usage type to Resource Inventory

We request adding a field of Usage Family or Usage type to each line in the resource inventory in order to be able to separate any storage cost for example from actual instance usage. This can help especially when constructing reports via API call...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Planned for future release

Expand supported limit of concurrent users in the UI

We have a large operation currently relying on Netcool's WebGUI. It is a large telecom company with a network of continental proportions. The operations and other teams that frequently accesses the UI to view alarms are currently around 100 concur...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Planned for future release

Provide Recommendations Tailor to Expiring Commitments

Currently, Cloudability doesn’t allow users to get recommendations for more commitments if there’s already a plan in place, even if it’s about to expire. It would be helpful if Cloudability could make recommendations for Savings Plans / other comm...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Planned for future release

Ability to filter the draft policies based on attributes of alerts

Capability to filter the draft policies based on attributes of alerts, which led to the draft policy (e.g. show me all draft policies defined by alerts from our event management tool). Even further the capability for several filter criterias, for ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release