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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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Send emails through MS Graph API instead of SMTP

In a few months, our organization will drop SMTP support in favor of sending mails exclusively through Microsoft Graph API. As of today, it does not seem to be supported by Instana. As a workaround, we will migrate our Email alerting channels to a...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Debug Output of Tokens in Probes should be in lexiacal order

"Older" Probes like mttrapd show the received Tokens in the Log File in a meaningful sorting. Younger Probes like MessageBus or ews list the tokens in a apparently random order. Customer uses the debug logs for documentation of different event typ...
about 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Instana Mule ESB V4.x Support

It is critical for the Mule ESB sensor to support more current versions of the product. Specifically v 4.3.0, 4.4.0 and 4.5.0. The only current support for the sensor is version 3.X, Mule 3 is in "extended support" and Mule 4.1.x and 4.2.x are end...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Multi-level approval flows that is independent of the department hierarchy

We would like multi-level approval flows that is independent of the department hierarchy. In our state authorizing environment, we have certain use cases where there are 2 approving agencies. Currently, you can set 2 users as the cost object owner...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1

Ability to Publish Approval Status to Cost Transparency

When publishing data from IT Planning to Cost Transparency, we'd like to be able to see the cost center approval status. We use automated data mgmt a on a daily basis, but we only want to publish the approved cost centers. Sending the status colum...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

Increase Shared Rules Values field character limit

In Cloudability / Insights / Containers (Container Insights 2.0), I want to add some 'shared rules'. - The values field is limited to 50 characters only. This means I might be able to add 2... or maybe 3 namespaces only. - Given that I need to add...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Future consideration

Support RegEx in Values field of Shared Rules

In Cloudability / Insights / Containers (Container Insights 2.0), I want to add some 'shared rules', based on Namespace names. - A regular Openshift cluster has 72 (!) namespaces starting with 'openshift-'. - As cluster admins, we install cluster ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Future consideration

Ability to check for Integration updates through a proxy

Simple one: Include functionality in the API pod such that it is able to check for updates from Automation Library (or S3) through a proxy. Right now only the NodeJS and Worker pods can do this it seems, but it being able to do it from the API wou...
5 months ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review

Pricing adjustments for all clouds

Currently there is a way to input a pricing adjustment for AWS services but not Azure or GCP. It's possible this info is derived another way but the configuration UI is inconsistent.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Policy Toggles to enable/disable a specific policy

Use case 1: Auto imported policies are not needed and are interfering with user defined policies. Enable a policy toggle to disable it at the policy level in Turbonomic so that no resources are affected by it. A bulk selection and disable menu ava...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release