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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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SLO Horizontal Scalability with Datadog

Datadog's 2024 revenue was 2.6B USD against 1.6B USD from Dynatrace. It's clear Datadog's growth and the relevance. IBM advertise the SLO horizontal scaling which is a great way to deliver true elasticity, but today we only work with Instana and D...
14 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
8 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Make project names editable

Users created a project name but then want to change the name or remove it and that functionality is not available.
6 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Permit & Document method to allow customer hardening of AIOps Egress communications

Customers have specific requirements for the configuration of egress from the product - route restrictions, method restrictions, specific per-site timeouts etc. These are instantiated as additions or modifications to the external-facing nginx cont...
6 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Provision of a Dedicated Proxy Server for Instana SaaS

Currently, Instana SaaS requires several configurations after deploying the Agent in order to communicate with the backend server. In general, a large number of ports need to be opened, and when setting up a proxy, various elements such as the TLS...
14 days ago in Instana / IBM Networks 1 Submitted

Color Coding ability

We need ability to apply color coding to visual table report based on values in its rows for example, if custom field value is true we want to see row in green and when false - in red
8 days ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Submitted

KPI widget for Rightsizing is only 10 days, would like it to be 30, 90 and use effective savings as well, toggle for widget configuration

Ask -**Default Period**: - The default period for analysis is currently set to **10 days**. - We aim to extend this default period to **30 days**. **Additional Lookback**: - However, we also need to consider a **90-day lookback**. - Some of our gr...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Centralized management for all subscription, for both Total Cost and Cloudability reports.   It is very challenging today

Centralized management for all subscription, for both Total Cost and Cloudability reports. It is very challenging today
9 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Expiring RI for RDS, add column for Engine type

For expiring RDS RIs, it would be very useful to have the engine added to the table that is sent via email subscription.
9 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Please add seconds parameter in the input dates field for UI time range section

In general, logs are generated at a nanosecond level. However, in Instana, the current filtering and time range adjustment options are limited to a minimum of one minute. While this granularity may suffice for some use cases, it becomes insufficie...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted