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Enable the customization of fields for alerts coming from Instana in Watson AIOps, so that custom payloads and additional data can be fully utilized in direct integrations.

Currently, when integrating alerts from Instana into Watson AIOps, there is a critical limitation: only a set of predefined fields are transferred, and important custom information contained in Instana's custom payloads is not mapped or visible in...
about 1 month ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Search the runbookInstances with Date&Hour filter instead of simple

The AIOPS Runbook Activities page doesnt allow the user to filter based on the hour of the day. Having this option will help filter better when runbooks > 1000 in a short window.
5 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

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 ...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Submitted

OpenShift (OVE or OCP) documentation and images to deploy appliance

Customers migrating from platforms such as VMWare to Red Hat OpenShift would like availability of documentation and images necessary for deployment similar to OVAs into VMWare.
29 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0

Four decimal places

My budget owners needs to have a field type of "Money" to be with four decimal places. Currently two is fine for US Dollar but with our global market we need to go to the 4th.
26 days ago in Targetprocess / Budgeting 2 Needs more information

Customisable links on Instana home dashboard

Currently, the Instana Home Dashboard provides quick-access links to resources such as “Install agents or collectors,” “Add user,” “IBM documentation,” “Release Notes,” and “Community blogs.” However, enterprise Instana users often require direct ...
9 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

This customer is looking for the ability to allocate costs within Cloudability to showback their costs related to their MS 360 Infrastructure stack.

Having this functionality would remove the manual workflow processes today to capture the services and costs associated to provide back to the business and finance teams.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Amount of decimals in the system

Customers coming from different systems are user to different amount of decimal numbers. also in between calculations are causing rounding errors in the total amounts of budgets, forecasted costs,... the request is to set a default amount of decim...
10 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Submitted

Verizon Wireless needs an API to create and maintain maps in DI

Verizon Wireless has hundreds of status maps managed by scripts currently, it would be unthinkable to have them manually create and maintain those maps in DI maps
21 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 2 Future consideration