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Separate Alert resolution entry in the IBM Cloud Logs Alert summary dashboard

In the current state the IBM Cloud Logs "Alert summary" dashboard only shows that alert has been triggered regardless if it the alert is really triggered or if the alert has been resolved by an user. This can cause confusion amongst the users who ...
about 20 hours ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Submitted

Support log agent/network outages that exceed 24h without any data loss due to ICL dropping "outdated log entries"

For our productive system we have the requirement to survive any downtime of up to 72h, so that on a failure that starts at Friday afternoon it can be solved on Monday morning without loosing data. This also includes log data. However, IBM Cloud L...
23 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 1 Under review

Enable Open Table Format support with Apache Iceberg

As data lakehouse architectures become increasingly prevalent, the need for open table formats that support ACID transactions, schema evolution, and time travel is critical. This proposal suggests integrating Apache Iceberg into IBM Cloud Object S...
18 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Object Storage 1 Future consideration

Function for users to perform failover for testing

In system development, there is always a need to conduct database failure testing. Many customers consider this as one of their service-in criteria. In order not to put an extra burden on the IBM Cloud SRE team, it would be nice to have a UI that ...
about 2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 0 Future consideration

Status page with GPU resource availability per zone

We sometimes are using large GPU accelerated instances (H200, Gaudi 3 etc.) in IBM cloud and have run into the problem that when we provision a new instance there are no resources of the correct profile available in our preferred zone. It takes ab...
8 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Under review

Integrating Multiple Backup Policies with Event Notifications

I have multiple backup jobs in multiple regions (more than 1 in same region also). How can I integrate these with single event notifications instance. I know, only one backup policy can be attached to event notifications instance. I do not want to...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 1 Under review

Activity Tracking Events Integration with SCC-WP

Please enable integration between Activity racker events with SCCWP Instance as well. Currently AT events can be sent to Cloud Logs, Object Storage and Event Streams only. As part of mature SOC we need to monitor all the cloud activity logs in the...
11 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 0 Under review

Enable ability to grant roles to admin user in Databases for MySQL

In our organization, we use an internal permission management tool that is based on role-based access control (RBAC). Our MySQL databases use roles to group permissions (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE), and these roles are assigned to users via GR...
12 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 0 Under review

Deactivate-functionality for secrets in Secrets Manager

For safe housekeeping of secrets in Secrets Manager the following approach is necessary. 1) Deactivate a deprecated secret 2) Hyper care phase, see if there are any issues with the application 3) Delete the secret after successful hyper care phase...
8 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Secrets Manager 2 Future consideration

CodeEngine to work with Signed images

Today, CodeEngine works with "un-signed" images. It would be very helpful if Code Engine could understand signed images and be able to work with it by verifying. For now, we can consider "skopeo" as a signing utility. Users could provide the publi...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Containers 4