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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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Allow for CPU Increment Size in vCPU Scaling Controlsto be extrapolated from "Change" field

We, like many customers, require the ability to increment by 2 (avoid odd number of cores) regardless of scaling control type. Currently, the tool only allows for that to be adjusted if we change "Virtual CPU". We need more granularity in ways we ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

add context help for Global Default Policy - especially Disable All Actions

Context help for Disable All Actions. Something like. "Turbonomic will stop generating any actions, Automated, Manual or Recommended. On-Prem Plans can still be run; Cloud Plans may produce faulty results."
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Datalink Classic Cloudability connector -request for selecting dates for connection

Hello,  can you please add functionality to allow selection of the days of the month on which the connection should run? The request is for functionality that allows selection of the days on which the connection should run until the end of ti...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Add Business Mappings Reconciliation scheduling to Cloudability

As a customer with many environments in Azure and AWS, we must run the business mappings reconciliation script on a regular basis. Apptio developers have supplied the script and the associated credentials for the Cloudability API and we have creat...
5 months ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Schedule workspace to automatically check in changes

We would like to be able to schedule the automatically check in to our spaces to eliminate joint check in's and waiting time. In our case, we work in 2 teams from 2 different countries, therefore we currently allign on each check in we perform in ...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Ability to self-monitor Instana REST API rate limits

A predefined dashboard that allows you to see the usage of Instana REST API for each API Token, to optimize the number of times or intervals of invoking the API to avoid reaching the rate limit quickly.
5 months ago in Instana / Common 2 Under review

While in group edit mode, default search bar to return results within the group

When you navigate to Settings > Groups > searchbar > (search query), you get returned results from the total inventory of that entity type. Often times you need to edit the pre-existing group from a sparse collection of VMs, so it would b...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Future consideration

Two-factor authentication for DWC and Remote CLI

Provide capability to enable two-factor authentication for DWC and Remote CLI, e.g. AD authentication and SecureID passcode
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

OTEL integration on Instana running Docker Container.

Want to enable the Open Telemetry (OTEL) acceptor (otlp-acceptor) so we can start testing OTEL as more standard way to send telemetry data to Instana. Instana backend is running on Docker Container
11 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Not under consideration

Data Insight Maps : Support for multiple data sources in the same Map.

Larger customers have their network performance data collected and stored using multiple NMS Clusters. It would be deeply beneficial to support adding nodes/paths to a DI Map that represent devices/objects managed across multiple NMS Clusters. Thi...
11 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration