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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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Reflect Sum of Highlighted Fields

To improve user experience when collaborating within the plan or forecast, have the ability to highlight fields in Expense Planning and Summary Tabs to get a sum of those fields (similar to excel functionality)
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Add custom user messages / pop ups in IT Planning

The regular 'What's new' pop-ups for each IT Planning update gave us the following idea: We, as TBM Office, want to be able to customize and set pop-ups / usermessages in IT Planning, maybe using the same technology as the update messages. This wo...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

AWS VPC Flow Logs Collector

Customer have application running in AWS Cloud and would like to have visibility of all traffic within VPC of all servers including Kubernetes cluster
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Cloud 0

Nginx autotrace

Hi, We would like to capture the traces of our nginx services. For this we installed the necessary on our TKGI environment, but it seems that the autotrace is not functioning on a customized ingress-nginx image. Since this is currently not support...
10 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Performance tuning for XML gateway for reading events from alerts.status and publising the same to different Servers.

This is the integrated part of Netcool Architecture and is available, but delay is observed, while sending the details to Humio or any 3rd party system. In out cases, we are sending the same to Humio Server and delay is observed, sometimes the del...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Send emails through MS Graph API instead of SMTP

In a few months, our organization will drop SMTP support in favor of sending mails exclusively through Microsoft Graph API. As of today, it does not seem to be supported by Instana. As a workaround, we will migrate our Email alerting channels to a...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Allow a method to report on cost savings (lost/hidden) by policy

Allow a way to look at actions that would be generated by policy but that are excluded. Example: If I create a policy to generate no actions on a specific subscription, I would like to be able to see what the "potential" savings are that are hidde...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Debug Output of Tokens in Probes should be in lexiacal order

"Older" Probes like mttrapd show the received Tokens in the Log File in a meaningful sorting. Younger Probes like MessageBus or ews list the tokens in a apparently random order. Customer uses the debug logs for documentation of different event typ...
10 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Increase MessageLevel logging for http interface separated from setting for the ObjectServer.

To increase logging for curl command control (making a POST request with a JSON body) sent. Now we have only messages about clients connected.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add possibility to group alerts by geographic location

We have many smart alerts per country both in the application and website perspective, it would be nice to be able to set a geographic location (editable or not). In our case it would be very useful to have a distribution by continents so as not t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration