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Lifecycle management for unattached disks

Introduce a lifecycle management process for unattached disks to optimize storage efficiency. This includes: Automated Tiering: Move unattached disks from hot to cold tier based on usage and detached status (detached >= 45 days) Analytics/Reass...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Topology-Driven Alarm Enrichment

The “Topology-Driven Alarm Enrichment (TDAE)” proposal introduces a native mechanism within IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps to enrich alarms directly using topology data, eliminating the need for manual enrichment rules or external Impact policies. The sy...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Generic TMF - 814 Probe to support the proprietary extensions to the TMF814 standard

In the production environment, we are encountering continuous errors in the Generic TMF-814 Probe (Netcool/OMNIbus Probe nco-p-generic-tmf814 1.4.0.0). Due to these recurring probe errors, multiple alarms are being missed, resulting in incomplete ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Global variables for workflows

Introduce global-level variables that can be defined once and used across all workflows. These variables would store values such as notification email addresses, API keys, or shared configuration data, eliminating repetitive setup and reducing mai...
about 1 month ago in Concert Workflows 0 Planned for future release

Show business dimensions in container reporting

Business dimensions add details that are logic driven vs. directly labeled. Customers want to be able to dynamically add additional information based on K8s labels and be able to filter on those in container insights.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Under review

filter by Account Name/ID

In the Rightsizing section, if it can add filters by Account Name or Account ID dimensions, it will be much handy for use to manage the rightsizing distribution.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Collapsible bottom panel on Incident > Affected Resources tab

In an Incident, the Affected Resources tab has a bottom panel which is not collapsible and leaves very little room to examine the topology graph.
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

When build finishes it can say finished successfully or with error

Sometimes a build takes a long time, around an hour, and finishes but we do not know if it was successfully. We need to check the table to know if the build failed with error or completed successfully. When the build finishes it should give status...
5 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 2 Needs more information

Native HA for the Self Hosted Instana Backend

In a self-hosted Instana backend setup, there is no native support for redundancy or high availability (HA), resulting in a single point of failure. This poses a risk to monitoring continuity in the event of a node or service outage. We kindly req...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Future consideration

Request for support of metrics/thresholds that are not available in Instana today for Linux (LZ)

An IBM customer moving away from ITM into the realm of Instana. They are looking for product enahncement to get all the metric/thresholds they are using to be available in Instana. See the list below for the supported metrics/thresholds that are n...
4 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 1 Under review