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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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IT Planning Event Log : open function for Cost Center Owners

Currently Event Log is useful, but it is only visible for Admins. Especially for cost centers managed by multiple users, these cost center owners want to see who eventually has done a change.
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

At ALSAC we make extensive use of NetBrain to monitor our Network. It would be great if we could bring that data into Instana to add additional context to incidents.

Including data from the network domain would enable us to see relevant context if we have issues in our infrastructure. If we could achieve this we feel that we could resolve some of our incidents more quickly
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

ALSAC would like to be able to monitor the SalesForce Cloud

We need to proactively monitor the SaleForce Cloud which is used extensively in ALSAC. We would like to be able to observe data such as (but not limited to): Logins and ip addresses related to them Data loads and deletions - unusual activity API A...
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Not under consideration

Dolar and local currency

In Brazil, for customers who have AWS and another cloud with Azure and GCP, there is a big problem with the numbers displayed. In the latest version of Turbonomic, the local currency for Azure and GCP are default and AWS is necessarily in dollars....
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Monitor subjobs

To be able to monitor subjobs. For example in the bank end of day process, the main job will have many subjobs. In this case the user of the subjobs can be the same with the user of the main jobs, but the jobName and jobNumber for the subjobs can ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Align Boxplot series with the datatable columns below

Box plots in benchmarking are misaligned with the data table below and are visually confusing. For example, Telecom appears to belong to Other. Adjusting the data table to align with the chart series / columns would make interpreting the data much...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Benchmarking 0 Future consideration

Support for Over 1000 Grouping Rules Under IBM's Scope-Based Grouping Mechanism with Telus Customization

The 1,000 grouping rules have been established by the business team based on their expertise and understanding of events within their technical domain. These rules help identify real problems, reduce noise from events, and prevent the creation of ...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Support for OAuth for topology observers like Dynatrace

Since customer security doesn't allow basic authentication or direct API token bases authentications, customer is updating Dynatrace API authentication to support OAuth using centralized FedSSO token provider. this toke in expires every hour. Curr...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Monitor on message types

Hi, We have some requirements where instead of putting a certain message id to monitor. We monitor all *INQUIRY messages which has not been responded within a certain period of time. If an INQUIRY message is still waiting for a reply for more than...
2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Turbonomic Target for Riverbed NPM.

It will help with more management and visibility context on the supply chain
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration