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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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Move the Rightsizing preferences from the high admin level to the rightsizing page for each use to chose for himself as a filter

As a big organization Admins we have a lot of accounts under the Cloudability org. and each is in a different place and path in the rightsizing process. We want to enable our user the ability to choose from low level of complication action to high...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Submitted

Cloudability / BI landing page for new users.

New users to Cloudability typically onboard by requesting SSO access but are without context when logging in to Apptio Cloudability for the first time. I would like to direct first time users to a landing page which would serve as a getting starte...
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Define a group based on a tag

Customer wants to be able to create a scope/group based off a particular tag, and then assign a user to that group. To have RBAC based on tags.
14 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

The system importance needs to be idicated in the Infrastructure Map

In the infrastructure map, pillar hight is shown as the machine size (such as 4core small, 32core high)But for the operations of the systems, the machine size does not matter, but the business impact is important for us. Currently in the infrastru...
15 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

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...
29 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Missing examples of REGEX expressions when creating a Dynamic filter on new UI

On old UI, Turbo displays a "?" symbol when you create an REGEX filter that shows 4 examples of REGEX expressions and how to use on Turbo. On the new UI, it does not show these tips. It would be good to bring these help tips back to the new UI.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

In every list-based widget, show the number of rows visible vs the total rows in its data-set.

It's currently not possible to know how much data is in each widget. The metadata is the only that show page counts but, in that case, not how many rows per page.
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Node logs(kubelet logs) by using Instana sensor or configurations

to get insights on the events and issues at Node level.
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Logging 4 Future consideration

On IBM AIX, Instana should not count filecache (completely) as "used_memory"

AIX by default uses available memory as filecache (between limits set by parameters minperm% and maxperm%), usually up to 90% of the total memory size. When the applications use only a small portion of available memory, the remainder (or large par...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Under review

Intergration oracle hypervisor (KVM)

to be able to monitor KVM workloads similar to VM ware hyper V
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release