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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM MAS - Maximo IT
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 25, 2025

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OpenTelemetry based discovery for configuration items (automatically populating CMDB)

IT operators are challenged by configuration management of container based infrastructures (OpenShift, Kubernetes). Synchronisation approaches and discovery of configration items (CIs) are challenging due to the dynamics within container environments as well as possibilities to discover these CIs. With OpenTelemetry (OT, https://opentelemetry.io/) a highly accepted open source standard gained significant adoption in container based application landscapes. The requirements is to leverage the now more standardized management not only for observability but also for automated configuration management.
There are three main scopes which should be allowed to be integrated with the Maximo IT CMDB from OT: Application Services instrumented with OpenTelemetry, Service Relationships (leveraging application transaction data) and Kubernetes services and objects (clusters, namespaces, workloads, nodes). For pods/containers a "linked data" approach could be considered, in stable environments even pods could be considered as CIs being discovered by OT.

Idea priority High
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    MELODY Bienfang
    May 20, 2025

    Thank you for your requested idea. We appreciate your time and efforts to create the idea and we have reviewed it for feasibility into our coming year release. At this time we have created a generic API to allow for ingesting of OT data from tools like Telemetry, and other OT tools in the market.


    please see the Maximo IT documentation under Generic API and the example OT tool integration to allow for this configuration by an IT admin or a services resource.

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