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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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Change "Apply a device template to a device" to "Update the properties of a device" in ScienceLogic integration

At present in the ScienceLogic integration, there is a block titled "Apply a device template to a device" which triggers POST on /device/X. This is technically correct, but there's also a second API call that uses the same URI: " Update the proper...
11 days ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review

Increase Dimension count via API data pulls

This request is to expand the limits of the reporting API endpoint to allow more than 15 dimensions. We’ve been hitting a limit on that for some of the workflows we have and was hoping there would be a solution for that.
12 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Upgrade to latest versions of NiFi on TNCP 1.4.6 and above

Problem statement:When more than 1 Nifi pod is down they are not able to join the cluster and cluster becomes unstable.Especially when Nifi-0 and Nifi-1 both restart at same time.Looks like they are not able to elect leader and join that node. Thi...
12 days ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Submitted

Calculated Metrics using Cloudability Usage Data within Apptio BI (Cloudability GovCloud)

As a user of a GovCloud Cloudability instance, it would be beneficial to have a feature to create calculated metrics referencing cost data from Cloudability. We currently cannot easily create metrics such as "percentage of total spend", based on t...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Need to document workaround when Trend Micro is running on Windows servers

When Trend Micro is installed on Windows servers, it prevents the Instana Agent from running properly and connecting to the Instana backend. The customer had to white list the fully qualified path to the instana agent and instanaPCP.exe processes....
12 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Ability to customize messages displayed in the DWC

We would like the ability to customize the text of messages used in the DWC. Specifically, the message that says, "User is not included in any role, please ask your administrator to include user to roles." We would like to direct users to an inter...
12 days ago in Workload Automation 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...
12 days ago in Instana / IBM Networks 1 Submitted

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...
12 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

Sorting by top n results broken down by month or day, should show top n results for each time period

Currently in Apptio BI, if you create a report with a single dimension and single cost metrics, you can sort the data by top results based on the metrics or dimension values. Once you select the "View by" field to any other than "none", you loose ...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

EditRows() function should strictly follow checkbox selections when they are enabled on the Editable Table report component

If the Checkbox option is enabled on an Editable Table component in a Report, the use of the EditRows() function in the action script of a button should only update rows that have the checkbox ticked. If no rows have been ticked, it should not upd...
12 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted