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Ability to Report on the Azure Recommendations

The ability to generate a report that compares existing commitments against recommended commitments, enabling us to identify under-provisioning or over-provisioning across different workloads.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 2 Needs more information

Request to create HMC Observer

We have been advised by IBM to create this request for requesting HMC observer, seems there is already out-of-the-box developed observer which can be bundled to suffice.
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

A way to calculate cumulative cost/usage over a period of time using calculated metrics

A simple use case is to track commitments with vendor which normally is yearly based on cumulative usage, we should be able to show it in a chart with target line and cost/usage metric showing cumulative values for the time period selected
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Need NGINX tracer libs for ARM

Dear colleagues, our customer has a lot of NGINX 1.18.x servers with PHP-FPM combined on ARM architecture. We successfully instrumented PHP-FPM but those calls are torn out of transactions because of NGINX and we didn't find Instana tracer libs fo...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 4

Monitor Processes that are in zombie State

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-os-process#process-abnormal-termination Instana does Monitor Process Abnormal Termination, but does not seams to monitor processes that are in zombie sta...
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Monitoring file or directory - Recursive, Counting only files

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-file Currently the probe counts the number of files in a specified folder . If there is a folder within the said folder , its being counted as a file The...
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration

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...
26 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...
26 days ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Future consideration

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...
27 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Gateway for Message_Bus v2 should include Transformer (and be fully compatible to nco_g_xml)

The new release of the Message Bus Gateway (v2) is announced as being more reliable and having better performance than the existing nco_g_xml. However, it turns out to not contain all the functionality. Our customer (main German Telco company) is ...
3 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review