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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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Logo Admin Enhancement Request

Add ability for Apptio Admins to view logos loaded for clients within AWS and be able to load or remove logos as needed vs having to submit a support ticket. Slack: https://apptio.slack.com/archives/C0H96R4AV/p1701989912244109?thread_ts=1701989152...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Dark mode in target process

Would be nice to at least have the option for a dark mode in target process to reduce eye strain. Thank you
9 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Future consideration

IT Planning Selective Edits to External Data

As a TBMA and user of IT Planning, we would like the ability to selectively edit certain columns within an External data set.  An example would be that we import External data into IT Planning and make all columns read-only with the exception...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Allow for full data retention greater than 30 days

As per Instana documentation, any value greater than 7 is supported for data retention settings. However, we were notified that 30 days is the maximum supported value by IBM Support team. We usually tend to keep the APM metrics for longer duration...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

IOPS & Throughput Added to Workload Optimization Calculations

Cloudability Rightsizing recommendations are based primarily on CPU, Memory and GPU utilization (in the case of A2 and G2 instances). However, it’s important to note that throughput and IOPS characteristics are not currently factored into these re...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

When users update a file through a reportwith different column headers or different file types instead of receiving a warning message users shouldn't be able to check in the changes.

Repro: User uploads a file in a report with different column headers, or a different file type and a warning message appears Current State: Users can still save and check in data. They might see the warning message but no confirmation that they di...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Hourly breakdown of usage data for AWS and Azure

Useful to get usage trends of our instances in order to track shutdown in nbh, trends on hourly usage, etc.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Functionality already exists

Adding Azure SQL Elastic Pools data to Turbonomic

this will help us with the monitoring of our elastic pool database we have in Azure & plan any costing improvements that are needed
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Custom endpoint levels

Today can you do custom endpoints URL using the "Configure Endpoint Extraction". It would be great if you could do custom endpoints URL with levels. For example if you do a custom endpoint for a specific URL then when you click on it in Analytics ...
7 months ago in Instana / Common 5 Future consideration

Support for IBM DataStage

Hi team, While searching Instana documentation I couldn't find IBM DataStage, this means is not supported and we need to be able to monitor this technology: https://www.ibm.com/products/datastage Can we add support for it like other IBM products? ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 1 Future consideration