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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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Support the use of kubernetes ServiceAccounts for AWS authorization

Currently the AWS agent can only be deployed on EC2 or ECS. Since we moved to EKS we would like to run the AWS agent inside EKS but without passing credentials to the serivce. The AWS way of doing this would be to assign an IAM role to the Service...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Custom scheduling of instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 7 Functionality already exists

To apply a common filter to all the charts in a instana dashboard

We don't have an option to apply a common filter to all the charts in a dashboard - this will be useful for adding a common filter like cluster name to all charts and reduce manual efforts
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1

Multiple tabs for a custom dashboard

At present we don't have option to add multiple tabs in a single instans custom dashboard, it will be hard to monitor by adding more number of charts within a same dashboard
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

High Availability for the JDBC2 Gateway

The customer would like to ensure that gateways are running all the time and if the primary server [gateway] goes down then secondary should be available.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Identify duplicate snapshots

Policy to identify duplicate backup snapshots in the public cloud so that Turbo can delete them
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

RunBook Automation - Scheduling Utility

Why is it useful? - This will be useful as it will allow for runbooks to be executed on a timed basis from within the tool Who would benefit from it? - All customers of IBM Runbook Automation would benefit from this as it will increase the inbuilt...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Re-Implement the Gauge Chart

Currently, Gauge Chart is not supported in R12. It would be great to Re-Implement the Gauge Chart which gives a way to quickly see how well a actual is performing against a target.
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Add Targets from IT Planning to Apptio BI Reporting

We want to see cost center vs. targets available in the BI tool. Often, our forecast are greater than our annual target. We want to be able to report on risk on a full year basis (when will the target be fully consumed - OPEX & CAPEX). Adding ...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

More columns and formula options for ITP Labor Allocation Rules

There needs to be more functionality in Labor Allocation Rules to handle Limits and formula capability.  In the US, we have various limits for Social Security Wages,  401(k), FUTA etc.  With only being allowed 1 Other Compensation w...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release