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Allow External data upload for ADM

It would be helpful to enable EXTERNAL data uploads from TBM Studio via ADM to Apptio Planning. These files contain centrally managed forecasts (not edited by users) calculated in the TBM Studio but today must be exported to CSV and reuploaded. Au...
6 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Calendar-Based Scheduling for Turbo Parking is require

Calendar-Based Scheduling for Turbo Parking is required to use turbo in full mode, we have some requirement mentioned below. we require a schedule where the servers need to be start/stop on every 2nd and 3rd Tuesday of a month, start time 6 PM EST...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

Sync user deletion from Active Directory to Instana

When integrating Instana with Active Directory, both Instana and AD user accounts must be manually deleted when a user leaves the organization. If Instana could automatically remove users when they are deleted from Active Directory, it would reduc...
6 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Filtering traces and trace spans based on time spent in various stages such as self-time, network time, waiting time

Knowing the self-time and waiting time of HTTP requests would help in understanding the performance of the system and the performance of downstream systems. This will be helpful in creating accurate SLO dashboards that measure the performance of e...
18 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Support for custom scripts to generate alerts with scheduling in Instana.

The Instana capability would consist of providing an option to associate a custom script with a host or any other element, along with a scheduler that runs the script at a defined interval. Depending on the script output, an alert event could be g...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Submitted

Enhance the maintenance windows to give the possibility to decide what to suppress (Alerts, Events, Automation Policies)

I've recently started to configure instana for my IBMi environment, and after setting up my automation policies, i stumbled across the maintenance window which was my logical choice to prevent those policies to run within the maintenance scope (da...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Need to be able to define Adaptive Smart Alerts against Endpoints

While Adaptive Monitoring against Services is useful, there are many cases where it can miss key problems that are happening. Sometimes, only specific URLs are being impacted. Since the data is being aggregated to the service level, those problems...
7 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Submitted

When editing a Policy, the new UI does not show the options that have been set the way the Old UI did

As a Policy Administrator, I would like to see that options have been configured for the Policy I am editing without having to open each category to see what has been configured. The old UI did this. In the old UI, all of the sections that had val...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Dashboard Access Control Enhancement

Current Issue: Currently, dashboards created by users are only editable by the original creator only. This creates limitations for collaborative dashboard management and restricts team productivity. Proposed Solution: Implement enhanced dashboard ...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Submitted

When editing a Group, show selected entities when opening a Group to edit

As a Group Administrator, I would like to be able to see the selected entities in a group when I open the group in Edit mode the way I was able to do with the Old UI. With the new UI, I see a message indicating the number of selected entities in t...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted