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Add 'Replace text' function in LogDNA parsing rule or view template

Useful for when you cannot control the source of the logs but need to replace strings such as UUIDs with human readable names.
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring Functionality already exists

ibmcloud CLI cos plugin: add command to get bucket configuration / metadata

Currently the only way to get the bucket total number of objects and total size as is: In the IBM Cloud Portal web UI go to the bucket configuration Manually calling the API with curl https://config.cloud-object-storage.cloud.ibm.com/v1/b/{my-buck...
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / CLI Future consideration

IBM Cloud (and specifically PowerVS) data centre in MEA region

Request for PowerVS service (and IBM Cloud) offering in MEA data centers for customers in the region.​ Almost all of the Hyperscalers have DCs across MEA. In order to compete with them, there has to be a least one DC in MEA. Current closest DC for...
almost 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Not under consideration

Add VSI host name to audit logs in IBM Cloud Activity Tracker with LogDNA

Currently only the VSI host IP address is in the log context, however also having the host name in there would make it a lot better when using with alerts. Was requested to post this here by IBM Cloud support.
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring Not under consideration

Have the Failover check "down-after-milliseconds" Sentinel attribute to be Customer configurable

The down-after-milliseconds is the time in milliseconds an instance should not be reachable (either does not reply to our PINGs or it is replying with an error) for a Sentinel starting to think it is down. Currently we are unable to configure/chan...
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases Future consideration

Improve search UI for VSIs

Cadence design has a significant number of VSIs and the search tool on the UI does not work beyond 200 VSIs. This is extremely frustrating to to the customer and makes working in the portal difficult and time consuming.
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Future consideration

List Repositories API for IBM Container Registry

IBM Container Registry provides does not provide an API to list the repositories. This feature is available in the UI. Adding this feature will bring ibm cr api closer to the docker v2 _catalog api - https://docs.docker.com/registry/spec/api/#list...
almost 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Containers

Export of classic infrastructure block and file storage to .csv format for easy reporting

Export of classic infrastructure block and file storage to .csv format for easy reporting just like you can for devices. It makes it easy for reporting purposes to management. Now the process requires using the slcli and piecing together the disjo...
almost 6 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas Not under consideration

Integrate logDNA with Microsoft teams using custom connector or GraphAPI

There is a requirement to receive the logDNA alerts directly on the Microsoft teams channel. Currently, we have email alerts configured. As suggested by IBM support, there is option for Webhooks but they are not secure as anyone who has the URL ca...
about 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas Not under consideration

Provide larger swap disks with VM instances

Currently IBM provides a "swap" disk (labelled as such in both the portal and Windows) of only 2GB, regardless of VM instance size. This is too small to actually function as a swap disk for the vast majority of VMs. Indeed Windows will ignore this...
about 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers Future consideration

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