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Assigning user with multiple roles or multiple external user groups

Enterprises are getting complex and role of a FinOps, DevOps or SRE is getting more fragmented. With this direction in the organization, a FinOps team member may want to have a readonly/observer privilege on all the resources, but more actionable ...
13 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Submitted

Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Allow multiple custom rules setup including http.header fields e.g. X-Instana-Service

We run multitechnology service architecture and therefore want to be able to map instana service name on multilevel custom rules e.g. http.header fileds.
14 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Container Cost Allocation Based on Labels Instead of Namespaces

The customer has over 40 Kubernetes clusters with numerous shared resources within a single namespace across different cost centers. They would like the Kubernetes cost allocation feature to support allocation of resources based on labels, rather ...
28 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Cost Management Support for Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO)

Context: Cloudability currently provides dedicated cost visibility and allocation capabilities for Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA). This includes workload-level attribution across clusters, namespaces, deployments, and labels, enabling cus...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Automatic event creation for process alerts

We are looking for a solution to employ a predefined list of Processes on the agent config and would need an event for "process down" created if the Instana server detects that process metrics came in from a host at any point and maintain that sta...
8 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Provide minimal Helm charts for Instana Enterprise Operator and Instana Backend

Summary Our CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins) and artifact-mirroring process are Helm-centric. Today, Instana Enterprise/Backend requires copying individual images and using kubectl instana to render/apply manifests. We request official minimal Helm charts...
8 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Improve quality and detail within error messages

to help understand what the problem is and to identify potential workaround and solutions
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Remove the target in UI automatically once we uninstall kubepturbo operator from the target cluster

If we want to uninstall Kubeturbo operator we can directly uninstall from cluster but the target will remain in the UI. We have to manually delete the target from UI for uninstallation. This should be done automatically.
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Support certification data upload with CBOM format

Now Concert support the certification data upload only with Concert Def SBOM (JSON). https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/concert/2.1.x?topic=certificates-uploading-certificate-details#uploading_certificate_details__title__4 But this is hard to automate th...
8 days ago in Concert 0 Submitted