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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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Please provide users with a summary of the release notes for the sensor version upgrade.

We would like a system that notifies users when updates occur for the sensors they are using, allowing them to understand the updates. It would be preferable if only the necessary information from the monitored data is notified to the users. Howev...
9 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Obtain metrics for paging errors BD/NBD and PERM - TEMP addresses on the IBM i system

Clients have frequently inquired about the ability of Instana to provide additional metrics for IBM i environments. As we know, the current monitoring capabilities include key metrics related to jobs, subsystems, CPU and ASP capacity, history logs...
16 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Incorporate Calendar Month in Custom Formula Calculated Metric

Calculated Metrics are being used to define the budget for a given month. We take a value and multiply it by the number of days in the month. We would like to be able to configure a calculated metric to be able to dynamically determine the number ...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Audit logging capabilities for TEP Admin activities

The current Audit trail we see is EIB Change log which gives information on insert/delete/update /add but doesnt give a detailed picture about what exactly was changed and by whom on edits/deletes of situation ,workspace, policy, MSL, user adminis...
3 days ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Submitted

Add information to Vendor Credential page explaining reason for advanced credentials

Currently we do not see any official documentation from IBM about what features are impacted by what we call Advanced Credentialling. It would be very helpful to add a text box in the application UI somewhere in the credentialling page explaining ...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Submitted

Confusing risk description in Actions

The column Risk description when a file of actions over container specs is exported, shows a mixture of different actions. It's a sum of potential actions but there is no direct correlation between an action and the description that appears in the...
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Actions excel downloaded is missing the word "limit" on the Impacted commodity column

List of exported actions for workload controller entities lists 'Limit' resize commodities as only VCPU and VMEM. It is expected VMEM Limit /VCPU Limit instead of just VMEM/VCPU. Related to the case TS019321209.
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

feature Budgets & Forecasting - remove Taxes on "Actual Cost"

When we forecasting, the actual cost brings taxes influencing all the cost values and forecasting itself. Our proposal is to remove taxes from this exercise NOTE: Already solved with business mapping and views
3 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Attaching Custom Payloads on Monitoring Issues

Attaching Custom Payloads on Monitoring Issues Based on the case TS019228912, IBM stated that the custom payloads can be only attached for "Issues and Incidents" type of events but not possible for "Monitoring Issues". Therefore, IsBank would be a...
3 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Tracking Snowflake prepaid credits

In the case of Snowflake and Azure Databricks, we prepay for a set number of capacity units. In the case of Databricks, it is DBUs. Each job that runs, etc, has a DBU spend attached to it. This is the same for Snowflake. It comes through as $0 dol...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Submitted