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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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Expand the Tomcat/WebSphere agent extension to include JVM metrics

The base Tomcat and WebSphere extension does not capture the hosting JVM CPU, memory life cycle, Heap, Garbage Collection, and if the Java Instrumentation is initialized, the agent will use the Java extension to gather the JVM metrics. However, th...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

improvement for the PostgreSQL Sensor

Unlike other sensors, unfortunately the postgres-sensor does not do any retries if initial connection to the database fails. Instead the agent needs to be restarted.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Budget Alerts - Continued Alerting

Ability to keep getting alerting, even after you hit threshold. Allow for continued notification, past the current 2 options of Expect to Exceed and Exceeded. AWS portal allows for notification for multi % over a set budget. So if I have $1K budge...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Under review

Support for Cassandra Monitoring for DSE 6.8.48

Currently version of Instana supports Cassandra monitoring for (DSE) 6.0.x, 6.7.17, 6.8 to 6.8.42 . Support for DSE 6.8.48 series will help teams to have complete Cassandra monitoring in Instana.
about 2 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Under review

Change default to "off" under Preferences for Cloud Spend Summary Emails

Users (Executives) receive "all in" emails and causes more questions, since filters aren't setup properly to exclude certain Sellers. There isn't much control over the User onboarding process from an administrative standpoint. The only way to edit...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Adding Account Owners to Rightsizing Dashboard

While we can customize our reports in BI with various dimensions, we are specifically referring to the rightsizing recommendations that help us navigate suggested scenarios. See the attached screenshot. I remember this was discussed before the CLD...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Multiple SSH Integrations

Allowing multiple ssh integrations in AIOps will allows an administratior creating the runbooks to select different jump hosts/ssh hosts to run the SSH Scripts. This will be quite helpful in scenarios where the client network is segregated into di...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Option to run Actions in Parallel inside the Runbook

Currently AIOps Allows the administratiors to create the runbooks with mulitple actions steps inside them however they limit the user from running the actions in parallel. Only Sequential run of the actions is allowed in the current functionality....
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Have the possibility to set up minimum number of hosts AND a odd/even constraint for suspension/provision hosts in cluster

Many customers have "streched" VMware clusters (I'm not talking about VSAN clusters, but regular clusters, being just spread in two rooms or two DCs). Turbonomic might recommend suspend actions in the live market and in "optimize on-prem" plans bu...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Under review

Right Sizing Recommendation Include Sustainability Savings Data

When viewing right sizing recommendations I need to see the sustainability benefit of making the change as well as the cost benefit. I am working with Green Pixie who I would like to integrate their data sources with Cloudability so I can view the...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review