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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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ITM LO agent dedup feature integrated with Instana

We have integrated ITM LO agent to forward the events to Instana agent; however, we found that the deduplication feature that the LO agent has is not integrated with Instana. For example, in ITM, we can dedup based on the Key attributes such as Cu...
9 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Future consideration

Train events to identify event anomalies

Events are received continuously and have a corresponding/expected payload which is used to perform important backend processing, e.g. policies will trigger incident creation based on field values, events are grouped based on scope values settings...
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

AWS Fargate agent for PHP Fargate Collector

Instana currently supports following Fargate Collectors https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-aws-fargate-agent. It would be nice if you can also add support for PHP language.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 5

Omnibus Probe for MS Graph API

The EWS API is being deprecated with no further development we will need a replacement for the Netcool Omnibus EWS Probe. MS Graph is the replacement API and we will need a Netcool Omnibus probe for it. The new probe should support a secure authen...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Planned for future release

Response Time For User Actions

We are using Instana to monitor for our web application availability, performances etc. We would like to have a way to get the processing time or response time for each user actions done on the application. For example: When the user login to the ...
9 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Change default to "off" under Preferences for Cloud Spend Summary Emails

Users (Executives) receive "all in" emails and causes more questions, since filters aren't setup properly to exclude certain Sellers. There isn't much control over the User onboarding process from an administrative standpoint. The only way to edit...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Adding Account Owners to Rightsizing Dashboard

While we can customize our reports in BI with various dimensions, we are specifically referring to the rightsizing recommendations that help us navigate suggested scenarios. See the attached screenshot. I remember this was discussed before the CLD...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Waterfall Charts in BI for ITP Data

As a user I would like to take my planning data create a waterfall chart in BI. I  want to compare from ONE ITP plan this year vs next year. Current functionality in planning only allows for comparing one plan to another vs compare the s...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Enhance CP4AIOps to get topology data from Meraki devices

Meraki's marketshare has exploded in serving large enterprises with cloud-managed networking in the last 5 years. Meraki now accounts for 10-20% of Cisco's switching business revenue and it is considered a leader in Gartner's 2022 Magic Quadrant f...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Expand Frontdoor API to include CREATE, UPDATE, and DELETE (CRUD) of custom roles

As a Managed Service Provider who manages the Apptio implementation on behalf of the customer organization. The customer organization has many agencies underneath. Each agency may or may not have same permissions to view and use different componen...
4 months ago in Apptio 0 Submitted