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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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Expose billing measure variable

The client wants to add a column that shows the billing method for that resource, whether it is per GB, GB/Month, etc. So that they can get more details in their reports.
13 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Utilise K8s secrets for InstanaAgent configuration

We are currently using the Instana Agent operator in Red Hat Openshift, and need to configure the Instana Agents. There are several places where use of secrets are in plaintext - this is problematic as we use gitops to manage the configuration of ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

View-Based Filtering for Cost Ownership Accounts in Forecast Summary

Overview: We request the implementation of a filtering mechanism in the Forecast Summary page that limits the "Cost Ownership" dropdown to display only the accounts relevant to the selected planning view. Current Behavior: When creating a plan ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Planned for future release

Include .Zip format in Datalink File import and export connections

Datalink Classic used to allow files provided in '.zip' format to be imported and exported from Apptio Cost Transparency. This file format has been dropped in Datalink. This is a blocker for us to migrate from datalink classic to Datalink as our u...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 1 Submitted

Add quota management information and recommendations - including reductions

Quota management and related recommendations, which is very important to the client since they determine the built capacity, and they see potential there to manage inefficiencies that the tool currently couldn't exploit. Please consider the possib...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Filters in Cloudability financial planning

When building a plan in Cloudability Financial Planning, we want the ability to include or exclude specific elements—such as credits, marketplace charges, taxes, and others—just like we can currently do in Apptio BI Finance is building the budgets...
27 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Planned for future release

Instana should support LOKI as a log source

The latest versions of the OpenShift Logging Operator have dropped support for ElasticSearch and have moved over to LOKI. Instana needs to be able to use LOKI as a log integration source in order for us to maintain a vendor supported logging model...
23 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Export Layout Feature - maintain column header layout but do not consolidate underlying data

Current when you export, the data below is grouped and text shows as " 2 Unique, 5 Unique". Idea is that all data would be expanded to it's lowest level while maintaining the header formatting. Expanding each column individually is not an option u...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Local binding mode support for Local monitoring for MQ deployed in OCP cluster

At the moment Instana agent only supports client binding mode for locally monitored OpenShift deployed MQ.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mq#common-scenarios This required agent configuration...
about 2 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Under review

Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
2 months ago in Instana 0 Submitted