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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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To apply a common filter to all the charts in a instana dashboard

We don't have an option to apply a common filter to all the charts in a dashboard - this will be useful for adding a common filter like cluster name to all charts and reduce manual efforts
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Add in dropdown all entity states for global entities (cards).

Currently dropdown for cards filter shows Initial Planned and Final, for non-global includes all entity states, this option not available for global entities.

Support VMware vROPS as (direct) Topology Observer

Large VMWare customers typically use vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) to federate their VMWare / vCentre deployments. One of the functions vROPS provides is centralised inventory management. Having an AIOps Topology Observer capability to retri...
22 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Proper Version Control of Scheduling Objects

Currently, the version control of scheduling objects is directly tied to the audit logs. This means that if you modify an object older than the value set in the global option auditHistory (default is 400 days), you lose the ability to see what was...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Request the implementation of visibility for the AccountingOrigin value within Instana

We would like to request the ACE Instana sensor to collect the Accounting Origin and for it to be displayed with ACE message flow stats. We have multiple MLP implementations that share a single message flow. Currently, we populate the Accounting O...
3 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 3 Submitted

Tracing: Ensure 365-Day Retention for Critical or Viewed Traces and Calls

Overview: Our current Instana environment does not reliably persist traces and calls beyond the default 7-day retention period. According to documentation, when a trace meets specific conditions—such as being viewed or containing critical errors—i...
23 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Allow execute actions on the disk attached to an instance that is in an unmanaged instance group

There are large potential savings to update the disk type per the Turbonomic suggestions. However, turbonomic UI states "the volume is attached to an instance in an instance group. Scale actions for this volume can only be executed in Google Cloud...
24 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 3 Submitted

Add more decimals to the apptio BI dashboard

Add more decimals to the apptio BI dashboard
24 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

change of column from Azure CSP cost report for customer price

We have an environment where the end customer pricing is already configured in Azure CSP. The Azure cost exports contain a column AX "paygCostInBillingCurrency" with the end customer pricing. Cloudability currently only uses the column AU "costInB...
24 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Submitted

Monitor for port status 'Listening'/'Non-Listening'

We want to monitor for ports on IBMi. Currently the port monitoring is not available for if a port is listening or not. Current monitor only monitor for 'Connection Established status' on the monitored port. But if port is not listening at all we ...
24 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted