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Monitoring shared pool utilization

I would like to know the real/effective CPU utilization PowerVS shared pool in IBM Cloud. I have LPARs in pools that are lacking of compute. Before adding additionnal CE to those LPARs I need to know/validate if shared pool are correctly sized, an...
about 1 year ago in Power 2 Functionality already exists

All Users IBM Cloud Activities Must be Recorder in Activity Logs and should be visible based on new RBAC policies

All Users IBM Cloud Activities Must be Recorded somewhere in IBM Cloud Activity Logs and should be visible based on new RBAC policies. Reason - Indivisual users does individual tasks on various IBM cloud services but there is no single pane of gla...
about 1 year ago in Logging and Monitoring 4 Functionality already exists

Enable Default Email Alerts Capabilities in Monitoring Services

Enable Default Email Alerts Capabilities in Monitoring Services. Useful to send emails from native monitoring services.
over 1 year ago in Logging and Monitoring 5 Functionality already exists

VPC application load balancer idle-timeout-value

We are using VPC application(db2wh) load balancer on OpenShift IBM cloud environment and some of the job needs connection to be open for more than the maximum acceptable value (i.e. 7200sec.) using annotation - service.kubernetes.io/ibm-load-balan...
about 1 year ago in Load Balancer 0 Functionality already exists

Please list incidents which can cause customer impact on Notifications in the portal .

When there is back bone issue, now IBM Cloud does not notify it to the customer because they cannot know which customer gets impacted.
over 1 year ago in Network 2 Functionality already exists

Get Notifications events via API

Currently the only way to notify maintenance events is via mail and unidirectionally or by entering the web. There is no way to consult via API (or in any other way) the maintenance / events bulletin. It would be of great help if this bulletin is ...
about 2 years ago in Logging and Monitoring 2 Functionality already exists

CIS plan usage

Currently it is not possible to see the usage of the CIS plans. For example, the standard plan has 5 TB of protected traffic, 10 million DNS queries, 10 million HTTP requests and 1 million edge function requests. Where do I see where I stand? Is t...
almost 2 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Functionality already exists

Metrics monitoring of Block storage volumes - vpc through IBM Cloud Sysdig

Request to support metrics monitoring of Block storage volumes for VPC in IBM Cloud Sysdig Monitoring.currently, there is no native IBM Solution for this.
almost 3 years ago in  5 Functionality already exists

LogDNA export / import

After creating all my alerts in a single LogDNA service I exported the JSON, and edited it slightly (the names of the views and the Slack webhook channel) and tried to import it but couldnt. I am trying to have the same consistent monitoring acros...
over 2 years ago in  1 Functionality already exists

Proxy settings in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

I would use RHCOS in a pure OpenShift environment. However, ROKS uses RHEL7 and there is no machineConfigOperator either. Therefore, Proxy setting to WorkerNode cannot be done by setting cluster Proxy object as shown in the following URL. IBM Clou...
over 2 years ago in  2 Functionality already exists