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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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Whitelist urls

Would like to be able to whitelist urls ie for instance if a whitehat testing is happening not to get http 500 errors on the whitehat urls.
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Out-of-the-box vs Custom Reports

As a TBMA, I'd like to be able to pull a report that shows me which of our existing reports are out-of-the-box vs custom. We are building out a report dictionary and this is a field we'd like to have available. This will also help us work around u...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Planned for future release

Need to be able to export Turbonomic data to 2 different locations

We have a need to export Turbonomic data to 2 different targets. We are currently exporting data to ThoughtSpot, and also need to be able to export data to our DataLake.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Planned for future release

Enable Retrieval of Current CPU/Memory Usage for Kubernetes Pods and Namespaces via REST API

Currently, Instana’s API allows fetching the CPU and memory limit and request values for Kubernetes pods and namespaces. However, it lacks the capability to retrieve current usage metrics such as actual CPU and memory usage.
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

IWS Installation with sedmgr -m all

Hello, We were getting troubles installing IWS 9.5 FP07 agent on a AIX OS LPAR using the sedmgr -m all settings on. The keytool and java binaries included in the IWS package install won't work if we didn't make them a sedmgr exception before they ...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Provide Users a "click to translate"

We are a global company and users in various countries may elect to type into their work items or OKRs using their native language. It would be great if TargetProcess could provide a convenient button next to each field "Click to translate". This ...
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Provide a Concurrent Count of VMs

This will help determine an accurate count of non-ephemeral workloads, which will help with software licensing requirements etc.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Future consideration

Provide Functionality to trigger an Anomaly based on a larger time sample. i.e Month over Month, vs Day over Dat

This helpful as they had a service that was idle for two months and it inadvertently started being used. It took a few days for it to be detected as anomalous behavior. Using a Month over Month time frame, might have triggered an alert earlier.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Under review

Adding status metrics for the IBM MQ v9+ object

The sensor for IBM Data Power and the object IBM MQ v9+ supports only Back-End Active Connections and Front-End Active Connections metrics. However it is important to know the status of the object because it has a tendency to shut down when IBM MQ...
4 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ 1 Future consideration

Apptio BI - Reorder tabs in a report

Hello everyone, I'm a bit surprised, but It is currently not possible to change the order of the tabs in an Apptio BI report. just opened a case and the support told me : After some research and experimenting, you cannot move the tabs after creati...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 2 Planned for future release