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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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Replace VMware tools shutdown command with SevOne shutdown command for proper shutdown

All VMware customers, would mean one triggered from the vCenter interface will then properly shutdown the machine. /etc/vmware-tools/poweroff-vm-default/etc/vmware-tools/restart-vm-default
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

To show Savings under Azure Savings Compute plan in commitment portfolio

Customer would like to see the Savings they are making on their account under Commitment Portfolio. As of now, they do see details related to Utilization, Hourly commit and Remaining cost, however having the option to see the savings happening wou...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 1 Submitted

API endpoint for User Management to allow customers to configure user profile characteristics such as auto-e-mails

Currently all users have summary e-mails enabled by default and only option is for all users to receive or all users not receive. Having a n API endpoint would allow us to programatically edit user profiles to provide a better user experience.
22 days ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
10 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Store Imported File Names in Event Log

When importing data into the expenses view of Planning, it would be helpful to store the name of the imported file in the event log. This will allow admins to know what file was loaded at a given time in the event there was an error in the data. T...
23 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Adding row count metrics to database query monitoring

By enabling database administrators to identify usage patterns and understand user interactions, it allows for optimization of inefficient queries that return a large number of records, leading to improved response times. This metric needs to be a...
4 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Under review

More robust scheduling options for workflows

Please look into expanding the scheduling options for automation workflows and parking workflows. I think this would be extremely beneficial. Right now, I have a use case where we have certain servers that stay off until they are needed, such as c...

When multiple alerts are sent to a given alert channel, send a single message instead of 1 message per alert

Some users have more than 50 applications. When a core application is down, all connected applications generate an alert. Then the user receive a lot of emails or teams messages, which makes it difficult to handle. We would like to add the possibi...
7 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Enable "Databases" as a service under the rightsizing section of OCI. Right now, there is only one kind of service i.e., VM

Enable "Databases" as another service under the rightsizing section of OCI. This will enable us to track cost & other existing rightsizing related KPIs & opportunities for Databases service as well.
8 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Enable "Volumes (Disks)" as a service under the rightsizing section of OCI. Right now, there is only one kind of service i.e., VM

Enable "Volumes (Disks)" as another service under the rightsizing section of OCI. This will enable us to track cost & other existing rightsizing related KPIs for "Volumes (Disks)" service as well.
8 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration