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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?
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Enable Disk Filesystem Attributes (Filesystem Name, Used Space, Available Space) in Custom Payloads

Description: We would like to request the ability to include detailed disk filesystem attributes in the custom payload of alerts — particularly when sending alerts via webhook for disk usage thresholds. Currently, when we configure a custom alert ...
12 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements The requirement is to exclude the message wait monitoring based on message text similar to "messageIdsExclude" in below code. messageQueueEvent: Lib-1/queueName1: ## Provide ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Under review

Provision of a Dedicated Proxy Server for Instana SaaS

Currently, Instana SaaS requires several configurations after deploying the Agent in order to communicate with the backend server. In general, a large number of ports need to be opened, and when setting up a proxy, various elements such as the TLS...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM Networks 1 Under review

Increase days for retention for traces and calls

Currently Instana allows to keep the history of calls and traces for 7 days, however, due to business requirements and policies that the entity must comply with before other areas and governmental entities, Instana is requesting to extend this ret...
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Under review

Provide Cloud Financial Planning daily data for current month

The CFP feature allows for reporting and variance analysis on the current month at a daily granularity. I believe that the CFP data source in Apptio BI currently only contains monthly granularity for all months. This means you can't report on say,...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Enable Internet Service Monitoring protocols in Instana

We must be able to monitor more protocols with less effort like an ISM Agent: DNS resolution, DHCP, FTP, LDAP, NTP, TCP PORT, SNMP simple, Synthetic Check sensor supports HTTP and ICMP ping. We can ensure a seamless migration of customers from ITM...
4 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Under review

Return missing details of graphical view in workload designer

In version 9.4 of the Workload Scheduler we used to be able to see the earliest start time and conditional dependency criteria on the graphical view. This is missing in version 10.2.2 (we recently upgraded) and we miss it. As long as I'm asking, i...
12 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Add Date Comparison for Calculated Metrics

I currently have some visualizations that use a calculated metric to show our average 30-day cost for popular cloud services like compute, storage, networking, etc. The formula is Cost (Amortized)(last month)÷30. To make this more useful, I'd like...
12 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 2 Under review

Add the Friendly Region Name in workload planning

currently in the workload plannig there is only the region coding (e.g. eu-south1) and not the friendly name (e.g. Milan) for both clouds. Having the friendly name present would simplify the region search even for the inexperienced and speed up th...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 1 Under review

AWS Splitting Credit Costs by category

I request that you break down the credits by category (see Description Item) on both the plan and the forcast so that we have the ability to make more accurate predictions. I attach the screenshot of AWS which already natively has this functionali...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Under review

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