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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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Request for Instana’s authentication function

The customer would like to request to enable the use of multiple IdP for SAML authentication. Currently, our customer is using Azure AD as an authentication provider. If Instana supported registering multiple IdP for a single Instana backend serve...
4 days ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Submitted

Close build early

Some builds take a long time, around an hour or more. For such builds if there is a problem with input like the uploaded file is not correct and there is an error reading file then the build should not start and error out or finish early. This wil...
6 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Visibility Cloudability issues

We use business mappings to control the views. However if the business mappings are updated the effect is that users can no longer view the ticket/cloudability issue they have raised. Cloudability seems to retain the business mappings value from t...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Want a way to see cloud volume snapshots that are still connected to a VM & not flagged as wasted storage or disconnected.

AbbVie leverages snapping of AWS volumes and does not have a automated process to clean up and or remove volume snapshots still connected to volumes. They want a way to have Turbonomic identify the snapshots with these criteria's: 1. Age of snapsh...
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Submitted

Please add the effective cost in the downloaded file for executed actions (widget)

We are seeing the effective cost in the UI, however when the report / details are downloaded to in excel format, it contains the on-demand cost rather than the effective cost.
13 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

Automatic CVE Resolution via CPE in SBOMs

Why is it useful? SBOMs often include CPEs, which are globally recognized identifiers for software components. Leveraging these identifiers enables IBM Concert to automatically discover associated CVEs using public databases, delivering immediate ...
13 days ago in Concert 0 Submitted

Subscription emails

Leverage more than one global filter on the email feature for Costing
18 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Change name of Apdex

Hi, We are using the apdex widget in the custom dashboards. Once the apdex is created, it's not possible anymore to change the name of the apdex. I understand that a clone is needed when changing the threshold or the scope. These configurations ar...
18 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Request for 32-bit Support in mqtracingexit for ITCAM MQ Agent Compatibility

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-tracing#downloading-ibm-mq-tracing-user-exit-for-on-premises-ibm-mq We are currently facing an issue with the IBM MQ Tracing Exit (mqtracingexit) on one of our Linux environments t...
19 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

The right sizing resources which are displayed should be able to filtered based on the business dimension

When it comes to right-sizing, all the filtering currently happens at the account level, while the information displayed is at the resource level (by resource ID). There needs to be a way to link these two levels so the process becomes more practi...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted