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Persistent Visibility for Recently Offline Hosts

Summary: When a host goes down in IBM Instana, an alert is generated, and the host is marked as Unmonitored in the Agent view and shown in red on the Infrastructure map. However, after approximately five minutes, the host disappears from both view...
13 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Add Turbo support to the IBM FinOps agent used for Cloudability and Kubecost

Currently customers have to install 2 agents from IBM to use all of the available FinOps tools. Kubecost and Cloudability have already combined their agents into the IBM FinOps agent. Customers would like to include the Turbonomic needs into the s...

Include Location as a field that's available in the Filters

We are currently unable to filter by location and that is something that the State of Massachusetts cares about.
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Parity between data sources from CSPs

Cloudability does provide the same dimensions across AWS/Azure/GCP, and there should be parity. For example- Subscription ID and Reservation ID are available for AWS, but not GCP.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Enable customers to upload Excel/CSV/JSON files directly in the UI to automatically create or update Business Mapping statements with built-in validation and one-click rollback

Today, users cannot upload Excel/CSV/JSON files directly in the UI to create or update Business Mapping statements.Because of this limitation CSMs/TAM/Admins must manually convert customer files into statements. Large Business Mapping updates (doz...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Latent Vacuum Engine v2.2: 6 White Hole Bursts in 100k Cycles — Area Law to 10⁻¹⁶

**Description**: - **GHZ benchmark** for ibm_sherbrooke/brisbane **Fault-tolerant** via boundary scaling **Photonic interconnect** via HOM V = T **Analog gravity** on silicon photonics **Who benefits?** - IBM Quantum team (2026 advantage) Almaden ...
3 days ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Data Quality Evaluations tied to detailed use cases from the Value Framework

A challenge when implementing Apptio Costing is knowing whether or not the data attributes you have available from your company's systems are sufficient to accomplish your goals in Apptio. It would be helpful to have a data quality assessment buil...
9 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Campanion operator support at pod level

Customer would like to have companion operator to manage workloaad at pod level. they use git and crossplane to deploy and manage workload.

IBM supported OpenTelemetry collector for Windows Platform

GlobeLife is a windows platform organization. All of their applications run in Windows platform. They want to send logs from applications both in-house developed or COTS to Instana for best use for analysis. Currently there is a LINUX OpenTelemetr...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 1 Submitted

Jira Integration: Identify Deprecated Fields in Field Mappings

Currently, when a field has been deprecated, there is no indication on the field mapping page. It would be helpful to admins, to clearly show when a mapped Targetprocess field has been deprecated.
10 days ago in Targetprocess / ADO/JIRA Integration 0 Submitted