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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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Waterfall Chart in Cost Transparency

This enhancement request would allow us to view the full page of the waterfall chart in the Cost Transparency > Production environment and hide the data entry table that is only needed in TBM Studio > Development environment.  However, ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 1 Planned for future release

Dollar value for on-prem scaling - just like Cloud. Each action has a saving/cost to it.

The customer would like Turbo to put a price tag on each action. They want to be able to tell how much adding vMem or vCPU or a combo. to a VMware VM costs. The customer is aware that it depends on a bunch of things (cost/hr of host, cost/hr of da...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Planned for future release

Need to be able to schedule CSV file delivery

My customer require the ability to get reports in CSV file formats for incorporation into they're own reporting.
8 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Planned for future release

Show Parent Widget Name on Widget edit screen.

For example, if we would like to create a custom widget with "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity which used on "Cloud Executive Dashboard", but finding "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity from "Add Widget" function is not a easy task unfotunatelly...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Bring Cloudability up to the levels of its competitors in sustainabiity reporting

I have reviewed the carbon reporting capabilities of Cloudability and realised that there are some huge gaps when compared to market leaders such as Sopht, Greenpixie, Tailpipe and even Cloud Carbon Footprint. Cloudability doesn't seem to report o...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Planned for future release

Kong monitoring with all the metrics!!

As on today, Kong is available for monitoring through instana, but with limited metrics on which we can put alerting. Below metrics are not available for alert metric to be setup as event. Since it is not completely available, we are not able to p...
7 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Planned for future release

Instana monitoring agent for IBM Datapower physical appliance

Currently IBM Datapower monitoring is available only for below setup 1. DataPower in a virtual machine2. DataPower in a Kubernetes cluster3. DataPower in a Docker container But it is not available for IBM Datapower physical appliance setup. Many c...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Export directly in xls or xlsx format

It would be useful to have the possibility to directly export into a more common Excel format next to the csv format.
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Planned for future release

User-defined CCSID handling of Z APM (Instana z/OS)

For Instana z/OS, when it tries to add the RFH V2 header for CICS-MQ-CICS or Outbound tracking - it would convert some data between IBM500 and the CCSID in the MQ header(s), by using z/OS Unicode conversion services to do the conversion. If the CC...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Planned for future release

Sort and Group Policy List

When viewing any particular entity or scope, the list of policies on the Policy tab is a randomly sorted randomly named list. Since a majority of these policies are automatically being generated by Turbonomic based on cloud provider constraints, i...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Planned for future release