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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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Create New Role for Portfolio Admins

We would like to have a new role established that is able to maintain their portfolio(s) just like an admin role, but limited to their assigned portfolio. This role should help with decentralized administration of portfolio(s). This new role is on...
4 days ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review

User cards should be exportable 'as is' so we can control what is seen when another user downloads. We can control what is see via lists or on the User screen, but not the export.

Currently we have fields that we are only allowing Admins to see in views and screens, but a user can still see those fields if they export one of the views that have 'User' as a card. This is information that we would like to keep hidden on expor...
4 days ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Submitted

Exclude No action recommendations

When we look at data in the rightsizing panel we often see recommendation with the recommendation 'no action' (in all scenario's whether we are using 10/30 days and on-demand/effective rate. We like to filter out this data from the rightsizing pre...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Exclude traces from Java´s endpoints.

Optimizing data ingestion in Instana, customer needs to exclude tracing from Java´s endpoint,
5 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

MQ Channel Alert Payload "suggestion" field value improvement

MQ Channel Alert Payload "suggestion" field value improvement. Better value for "suggestion" field is highly desirable. It currently has so much undesired detail with line breaks unlike other alert "suggestion" field. Find actual alert paylod in a...
8 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Display clients by Username or Computer Name in Flow report instead of IP address.

"Flow - Top Apps and Categories Detail" report is very nice.It is useful for me to find a user who most access the specific application by checking the "Top Apps > Top Clients" widget. But this widget displays clients by IP address. This is a b...
13 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Pareto chart - Cost Transparency

The Pareto chart is one of the most popular charts, as it allows users to quickly grasp the rate of the top X at a glance. This will enable TMBO to leverage Apptio for C-level reporting.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Future consideration

Lifecycle management for unattached disks

Introduce a lifecycle management process for unattached disks to optimize storage efficiency. This includes: Automated Tiering: Move unattached disks from hot to cold tier based on usage and detached status (detached >= 45 days) Analytics/Reass...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review

Enhance / Enable service flow map with metrics on service relation

Please Enable display of service metrics on service relation in Instana UI service flow map
14 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

GlassFish Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application when it is not enabled.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review