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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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Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
4 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

and or statements in filter

When creating filters in Apptio BI you are unable to create a combination of and en or statements. Hence you need to create several statements to achieve this. As an example i have this statement below. It would me much more efficient if we can ne...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Change units in downloaded csv file with recommendations

The units appear in KB and the client requests GB. It is a much more manageable and realistic unit given the current sizes.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Future consideration

Actions for Cloud SQL on GCP

Hello friends. A client migrated part of their applications from Azure to GCP. After migration, the client applied a series of cost-saving actions, but they missed actions for PaaS databases on GCP, actions that they had on Azure. My suggestion/re...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Allowing Scheduling of a Parking Schedule Pause

We have a need to plan/schedule Parking Schedule Pauses to allow developers/engineers to plan maintain windows into existing Parking Schedules. So currently we have parking schedules in place and our sysadmins can pause a parking schedule for a pe...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Add Additional Rightsizing ROI Metrics to ApptioBI Metrics

Our end users would like their potential rightsizing savings and realized savings metrics added to their base ApptioBI reports. Since Cloudability has the Rightsizing ROI report trackingr realized savings, why can't the realized savings metric als...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

NetFlow support for defining Custom Virtual Interfaces in the DNC

NetFlow from multiple airports (via MSP) arrives on a single NetFlow interface, requiring them to define CVIs in their current tool. While SevOne can sort of cover the capability using multiple network segments, it isn't as straight forward as the...
10 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Search on filters in email subscription

It's not possible currently for users to pick the element they would like to subscribe if the list from which they choose is larger than 250 entries. This is often the case as Service Offering or even Project Managers and Service Owners have more ...
11 days ago in Apptio 0 Future consideration

Support Kafka Protobuf integration in Message Bus probe

Activating this type of integration will allow our clients to continue incorporating the latest technology equipment into their event and alarm management platforms, which positions the product in a better way compared to the competition in the ma...
9 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Able to query the Instana Events in Grafana

Hi team, There has been a need to have Instana Events in Grafana, the same way as we do right now in the Custom Dashboards, basically, be able to query Critical/Warning and present them in a Grafana widget. Thank you.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration