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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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Ability to pass details on service when an alert is triggered for custom events/built-in events

Need ability to pass details on service when an alert is triggered for custom events/built-in events. Required format - subject line+ service name.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Future consideration

Application Perspective creation improvements

When creating/updating an AP following improvements are suggested: - A "notes" field writing in for which purpose this AP was created- A "tag" field in which tags can be entered manually which can be used in the AP overview to group by.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Labour Actuals

We were wondering to request to  labor actuals in the same way we load cost actuals via spend management . At the moment the labour actuals can be overwritten or deleted in error by users. Having this option would lock the actuals for labour ...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Exclude entities from licensing based on tags, services etc. so not all entities are discovered for a specific integration.

For a given integration such as AWS, exclude specific services such as EMR that is underpinned by EC2. This allows Organisations flexibility with regards to entities that need to be discovered and optimised for the target account.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration

FTP monitoring in ace

In ACE, for many clients, we have numerous flows that receive input from files, especially via FTP. However, we have noticed that Instana is unable to trace these inputs. It would be beneficial to monitor this scenario as well.
6 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Future consideration

IMPROVE AND ALLOW MAP GEO CAPABILITY

1. I would like to duplicate an existing map from the explore->maps screen 2. Map permissions/sharing should mimic reports/shortcuts/etc. public/private/team/tenant/specific users 3. Topology widgets have no way to not be in 'GEO' mode which ne...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Limiting Tables to Top X Amount of Rows

Hi Team, I had originally reached out via Apptio Community, and it was suggested I bring this as an enhancement request: https://community.apptio.com/question/limiting-tables-to-top-x-amount-of-rows#1e0db23b-4549-4c63-a2a0-018e2f23f44f We ...
10 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Custom Tagging(or Labeling) to Incident(Story) Title in Slack is required in order to reduce the burden of Developers

The SREs and Developers as AIOps Customer wish to reduce their burdens to check every alarm notified in Slack channel. The Incident Title sending to the Slack channel is almost the same so that it is very hard just to see the title in Slack and de...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Maintenance windows to have Object Level Filtering

Use Case - A device is up and running, however a specific object is down for ‘maintenance’. It would be nice to be able to suppress Alerting for that specific object or group of objects. Example: Circuit maintenance on a router with more than one ...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Future consideration

Disable All Actions Switch under Global Default Policies must include Parking Actions. Currently does not.

People might assume that the Global Defaults Disable All Actions switch might work on Parking actions. And then during a cutover, machines would be turned off by accident causing massive disruption. EITHER this switch should INCLUDE parking action...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration