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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 lose visiblity to POSTGRES DB (running on OCP) after the POSTGRES cluster restart, it resets to default settings

We are trying to monitor CP4AIOPS & CNEA/AMS on OCP. We follow the document (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-postgresql#enable-statistics-collection) to enable tracking so Instana can mon...
4 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Hide recommendations filter for UI

Currently we can filter the application to show rightsizing recommendations for compute over a certain amount. We'd like to see more elaborate filter options that apply to all right sizing categories like: 1) An amount threshold that applies to al...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

To enable the monitoring of Job count based on Queue Library only where the Queue Name could be anything

To enable the monitoring of Job count based on Queue Library only where the Queue Name could be anything For example, Job Queue Library is "QGPL" and count is >= 200
4 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

1yr performance graphs

Expand time range for the largest selectable timespan to one year in the user interface. This allows customer's operations team to see long term performance and capacity trends. The yearly graph should have 365 daily datapoints which will speed th...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Container - Bin packing recommendations

Clusters could be more optimized if the bin packing was optimized. It would be helpful to see recommendations that provided guidance to more optimally utilize clusters.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Finops for Huawei Cloud with RIA

Extract from Huawei Cloud the Billing information and convert to focus format for the Cloudability (IBM Tool) consume it we need to certify all Bill Management API from Huawei Cloud: 1 - https://support.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/api-bpconsole/api...
3 days ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 0 Submitted

Generate a file output without a header row on the csv file

This would be useful for our automation of our chargeback process. This automation runs from Cloudability through SFTP to our Nationwide Finance system and the system can not accept a file with a header row.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Certify Sterling for Sobeys Pilot

It's required for complex data orchestration pilot @ Sobeys We have a TechZone environment so you can test. Let me know the emails of individuals who need to be added to it File Gateway Swagger UI - Username: fg_sysadmin - Password: Ask me on slac...
3 days ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 0 Submitted

Easier agents update in air-gapped environment

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Instana in air-gapped environment. They had system administrators installed static instana agents and want simple procedure to upgrade them by Instana administrators who are responsible for Instana and agents...
3 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

See which notification box was checked when comment was created

When adding a comment there are checkboxes to notify creator/assigned people. The customer would like to see which option was checked when creating a comment in the history.
3 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Submitted