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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 ec2 permissions be added: DescribeInstances permission to be provided for all AWS linked accounts, which would be needed to determine whether a given instance was explicitly terminated.

The client was experiencing an issue with the recommendations that Cloudability shows. In the Optimize section there is a subsection called Rightsizing, which is where we can see the optimization recommendations based on the resources we have in t...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Functionality already exists

Want to be able to execute Automations from a specific Agent

Within the Action Catalog for executing automations, the target server can be selected if the Automation is run manually by a person. The person sees a list of available Agents and selects one. But, when executing the Actions in an automated way v...
3 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Functionality already exists

Views - Default to Showing All Data

Ability for Users to not have a set View as default. Ability to not be forced to be filtered on a given View on home page of Cloudability. When having multiple vendors integrated, the need to not be filtered on a given vendor is important. As an A...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Views 3 Functionality already exists

Enable Views to be shared based on role assignment rather than named users.

This applies to Apptio TOTALCOST including Cloudability and TBM Studio/Cost Transparency. Our access management approach is such that we expose certain features to our end users based on their Mission Organization. A Mission Organization could hav...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Functionality already exists

Support IBM App Connect v13.0

Currently IBM Instana only support IBM ACE v11 and v12. We have setup latest version v13 for IBM ACE in our environment. When can Instana support this new version?
4 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Functionality already exists

When working with Custom group, add a button to create a policy from that Custom group

When we are working to optimize AKS clusters, we are unable to specify the volume tier policy to exclude recommendations for Standard HDD disks We want to be able to just apply a policy to a subset of volumes, just the ones in the group and cannot...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Functionality already exists

API of Tracing

When a service or endpoint alarm occurs, we need to obtain the corresponding trace details through the API, but currently Instana does not have this API. Traversing all traces is time-consuming. It is recommended to add this API
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

Methods unixssh : Using passphrase

Have the option of using an RSA key with a passphrase (for SSH) when using the unixssh method. At present, we are obliged to use keys without passphrases for the unixssh method, which poses security problems.
4 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Enable Retrieval of Current CPU/Memory Usage for Kubernetes Pods and Namespaces via REST API

Currently, Instana’s API allows fetching the CPU and memory limit and request values for Kubernetes pods and namespaces. However, it lacks the capability to retrieve current usage metrics such as actual CPU and memory usage.
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

Fix Actions Taken list on the Top Accounts page.

When Navigating from the home page, to Cloud, Top Accounts, Show All, there is a column for number of actions available. (in the old UI) In the new UI this useful column was eliminated. Whether viewing in the UI or downloading that list, the Actio...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Functionality already exists