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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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Request for HTTP Communication Support in Instana SaaS

Some customers only allow HTTP communication to monitor all outbound traffic from their environment. Currently, on-premises deployments support both HTTP and HTTPS configurations, but SaaS deployments only allow communication over HTTPS. We kindly...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Under review

Perform periodic internal backups of all databases

We recently suffered some corruption of the Common Services Postgres database and found out that the pods themselves do not take any sort of backups to mitigate this situation. On a support call recently it was discovered that the Zen Database doe...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Pacemaker Sensor

Pacemaker is essential to ensure true high availability (HA) of your services. Pacemaker Monitoring Objective:Monitor health of the cluster (nodes, quorum, resources, fencing)Measure health of the managed services (e.g. virtual IPs, web services, ...
6 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

DWC needs to show what sub-page is currently selected

Currently, if you open Monitor Workload and execute several queries, creating multiple sub-pages, there is no visual indication that shows what page is selected. It only highlights the top-level Monitor Workload page.
6 days ago in Workload Automation 1 Needs more information

Views - Can't see who is using

CLOUDY-I-156 was closed as delivered, but only part of request was delivered, the who created part. I had also requested insight into who is using View. As an Admin, if I want to delete a View, I need to understand who is using it as a default Vie...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review

Currently Maps can be found by searching by name, cannot search for devices and then see/click on the map the device is on.

Being able to search for the device and see the related Map it's on would save time, rather than the limitation of only a 'map name' search.
6 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Ability to remove specific agent type when installation was done with '-agent both' option

We currently have both FTA and DA installed on Windows/RHEL servers but we are transitioning the workload to only use DA. We would like to remove physically FTA from the environment but we are unable to do so when the '-agent both' parameter was u...
6 days ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Recent dashboard UI changes have removed the ability to select and copy text from tables

With the recent Cloudability Dashboards UI update, we lost the ability to select and copy text from tables, a small feature we relied on daily. It made grabbing numbers or dimensions values quick and easy without exporting or digging into reports....
6 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Functionality already exists

IBM Cloud Rightsizing Support for VPC and Classic in Turbonomic

This proposal introduces advanced IBM Cloud-specific capabilities within Apptio Cloudability to enable automated rightsizing recommendations for both VPC-based and Classic infrastructure environments. Key Capabilities: - Full IBM Cloud Integration...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

Embedded AI/ML System for Automated Business Mapping Suggestions in Apptio Cloudability

The proposed feature introduces an embedded Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) engine within Apptio Cloudability that continuously learns from customer-specific resource tags and usage patterns. Based on this learning, the system...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted