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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 Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud) Support in Turbonomic

Dear Turbonomic Production Team, Turbonomic currently lacks support for Alibaba Cloud, and I strongly believe that incorporating this support would be invaluable, especially given the significant presence of Alibaba Cloud in the Chinese market. No...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Not under consideration

Support for Cassandra Monitoring for DSE 6.8.48

Currently version of Instana supports Cassandra monitoring for (DSE) 6.0.x, 6.7.17, 6.8 to 6.8.42 . Support for DSE 6.8.48 series will help teams to have complete Cassandra monitoring in Instana.
about 1 month ago in Instana / SRE 0 Under review

Add Additional Rightsizing ROI Metrics to ApptioBI Metrics

Our end users would like their potential rightsizing savings and realized savings metrics added to their base ApptioBI reports. Since Cloudability has the Rightsizing ROI report trackingr realized savings, why can't the realized savings metric als...
25 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Change units in downloaded csv file with recommendations

The units appear in KB and the client requests GB. It is a much more manageable and realistic unit given the current sizes.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Future consideration

Flow Rules and ability to block unknown

I would like a way to block all "unknown" flows from all flow collectors such that I do not process flows I do not want to have in my system. These unknown sources eat resources on collectors and I would rather an a "deny ip any any unknown" type ...
8 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Needs more information

Flow Rules and grouping Collectors

I would like a way to have a group of flow collectors in SevOne grouped then be able to use that group inside flow rules. Thus allowing me to have a USA group, An EMEA group and so on. Now I can easily say "For all flow collectors in the DNC_Japan...
8 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Support tracing of RMI calls in the same JVM.

Our information system rely a lot of on RMI calls between components ( EJB). To optmize those calls we have deployed multiple components in the same JVM. When a component A calls component B in the same JVM, INSTANA does not trace the call to B co...
8 days ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Custom dashboard - last value

Through Prometheus, we are gathering in Instana a gauge metric that shows if an instance is active (1) or inactive (0). We'd like to show this value in a custom dashboard using a 'Big number widget' or a 'Top list widget'. It would be great if we ...
8 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Whenever data export from the Cloudability bucket to the CCM bucket fails, customer should be receiving a notification /alert stating the same

Whenever data export from the Cloudability bucket to the CCM bucket fails, customer should be receiving a notification /alert stating the same. This will help them to communicate wioth their stakeholders that there will be discrepancy in cloud num...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Submitted

Ability to remove final plans from the plan drop down and only have these available in the compare and summary compare area

Currently all the plans are available in the drop down but you can only edit new and open plans. it would be good if you could hide the final plans but have them available in the expense tab as a drop down and the summary/dashboard report as a com...
15 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Not under consideration