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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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Local binding mode support for Local monitoring for MQ deployed in OCP cluster

At the moment Instana agent only supports client binding mode for locally monitored OpenShift deployed MQ.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mq#common-scenarios This required agent configuration...
8 days ago in Instana / MQ 1 Submitted

Product Feature Proposal: GCP DBaaS Support

Objective: Enhance IBM Turbonomic's capabilities to include automated optimization for GCP's PaaS database services, such as Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Bigtable, Firestore, and Memorystore. Rationale: Diverse PaaS Database Offerings ...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Submitted

Allow custom metric reporting without a primary dimension defined

Problem: I have several custom metrics defined in my Cost Transparency data set. I would like to be able to show both grand values and trended breakdowns per month for a selected time frame. Right now when I try to build that summary I get the err...
18 minutes ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Commitment Recommendations list should include account names

When I look at reservation recommendation list, I see only instance types. I dont know on which accounts these instances work and whom I should follow up in regards to reservations. Please add Account ID or Account names in the recommendation list.
about 1 hour ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Bulk unassign functionality for User/Team Projects

We have over 2000 projects and if we want to reset a user's project assignments, then we manually have to unassign them from each project. There is a bulk assign option, but no bulk unassign option. As a workaround, I currently use the user Id in ...
about 4 hours ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review

Instana does not count walsender processes in the "Active Connection Count" metric for PostgreSQL

Instana does not count walsender processes in the "Active Connection Count" metric for PostgreSQL Refer to Case TS019326267
about 19 hours ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

TSRM Gateway to check whether a ticket exists in Maximo before retrying the create process

When the gateway ticket creation attempt fails due to a timeout in the web server, the ticket is sometimes created on the Maximo side. When the gateway retries the failed operation and succeeds, a duplicate ticket is created for the ExternalId (Se...
about 22 hours ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Exposing Cloudability Cost Details to Backstage using a Plugin.

We want to expose the cloud cost details for applications deployed using backstage or any application deployed in AWS within the DevX portal (using the plug in). https://backstage.apptio.com/
about 22 hours ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Visualize health of application and host in single dashboard/view.

Currently we need to check health of host and applications running on them separately. Since the health of host also affects the application health, it would be good to have a view which shows both application health and host health as one view. i...
1 day ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Display tag names for Hosts in the Infrastructure view

We have 2 zones defined with each zones having 20 servers for production and integration environments. Since there is no option to enable tag as display names for hosts on zones, its difficult to identify the application servers. It would be good ...
1 day ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted