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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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Add possibility to group alerts by geographic location

We have many smart alerts per country both in the application and website perspective, it would be nice to be able to set a geographic location (editable or not). In our case it would be very useful to have a distribution by continents so as not t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Increase MessageLevel logging for http interface separated from setting for the ObjectServer.

To increase logging for curl command control (making a POST request with a JSON body) sent. Now we have only messages about clients connected.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Snapshot Forecast Version compare across any periods in A1

As a Service Owner I want to be able to compare my forecast version across any periods (i.e. P01-P12) in A1.  So, that I can see what is my forecast version in any period compare to any other period.  In addition, the version should not ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Instana supporting instrumentation of lambda functions using Terraform

As of now, Instana is not supporting AWS lambda functions using Terraform. Few teams in our agency using AWS lambda functions using Terraform and we need Instana instrumentation on these nodes.
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Under review

Custom Dashboard Traffic light widget

We're using the custom dashboards for a while now, and we are missing some customization features like a traffic light Widget.That's why we use Instana Custom Dashboards for simple dashboards and Grafana for dashboards, that need to be more meanin...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Infrastructure 11

Formula Variable Viewer

As a Apptio Developer in my organization, we utilize many different table columns to calculate cost for reporting.  It would be nice to have a feature to view values and step through our formulas for verification.  Like viewing a program...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Ability to edit actual attributes directly in Spendmanager UI

The enhancement request is that we want the ability to edit actual attributes directly in Spendmanager UI, bypassing the need to import actuals via .csv Import file or Cost Transparency.   For example after we have imported the current mo...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Allow or block access to subscriptions/projects in turbonomic

Turbonomic should have capability to block/allow access to subscriptions or projects even though the owner of the subscription provides access to the service principal. As the target is set to Azure/GCP, we should have some granularity to allow/bl...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 2 Future consideration

Add WebSphere (WAS) information to Custom Service Rules

Hello, Can you please add WebSphere (WAS) information like Server Name, Node Name and Cell Name to the list of tags in Custom Service Rules ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-services#create-a-custom-ser...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Planned for future release

Dashboards: Add variables (dropdown menu) to custom dashboards

Hello, Can you please add variables (dropdown menus) in custom dashboard so that we can have one custom dashboard on which we would be able to show same data but for different application/host/process/jvm.... Those dropdown menus should also suppo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration