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Agent Installation - Can provide an option to over-write the default `/tmp/.instana` folder PATH location to a path of the customers choice

While enabling Java Virtual threads Customer lost tracing of event calls. Further debugging with Instana support team, they found that the issue is that Instana is losing its temporary files staged in `/tmp/.instana/*` folder. As per Instana suppo...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Planned for future release

Perform periodic internal backups of all databases

We recently suffered some corruption of the Common Services Postgres database and found out that the pods themselves do not take any sort of backups to mitigate this situation. On a support call recently it was discovered that the Zen Database doe...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Object groups & device groups should not be allowed to be deleted, if a policy uses that group.

How it works currently : Upon deleting a device/object group, the associated policy also gets deleted. How should it work: When trying to delete a device/object group that is associated with a policy, an error/warning should be thrown to the user....
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Business Mapping in IBM Turbonomic – Current Limitation and Needed Enhancement

Currently, in IBM Turbonomics, we can automatically create business mappings based on tag values only for Virtual Machines. I need this feature to also support and group other services such as storage, databases, and containers.
20 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

ServiceNow Gateway to respond to ncp_ping and hence work under Process Agent control.

In relation to case TS020138656 SNOW GW doesn't respond to ncp_ping and hence not working with PA. This impacted our production instances running under Omnibus nco_pad for High Availability. IBM Supported suggested in the case above: " I would lik...
21 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Omnibus ServiceNow Gateway OAuth 2.0 to support "client_credential" grant_type

In relation to a IBM CASE TS019948013 Omnibus GW for SNOW OAuth2.0 Refresh Token status: 302 issue. Current Impact: our Production instance of SNOW gateway can't use OAuth2.0 authentication mode due to the reported issue above. Raise an enhancemen...
21 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add subgroups to Object Groups.

Object Groups are too flat. It would be nice to have sub-group for object groups. They would be populated by the same type of rules used for object groups except the source would be the parent group instead of a device group. A DI report that has ...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

The data exported from CUR to blob storage includes the 'Unit of Measure' but it is not present in Cloudability. As part of the monthly usage report audit, the 'Unit of Measure' is one of the mandatory dimensions. Could you prioritize adding it?

For the audit, we are comparing the Azure pricing sheet with the Apptio usage report. The rates defined in the table above are based on the 'Unit of Measure.' The 'Unit of Measure' in the Azure pricing sheet and the CUR file differs however the pr...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 3 Needs more information

Requesting to add "Day of week" to business mapping for rightsizing tables.

Working on creating a COIN Dashboard for each provider AWS, Azure and GCP. In order to calculate Non production and Production costs by weekday and weekend, we need to evaluate the daily cost from the rightsizing data to categorize accordingly.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Ability to distinguish Service/Endpints with same name from different clusters

We have setup alerts to monitor complete drop in calls for Service & Endpoints. However, we have the same applicaiton (NOI) installed for two separate environments i.e. clusters (e.g. QA & PROD); the services and endpoints have same name e...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Functionality already exists