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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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Confidence Vote Improvements to view votes by team.

In SAFe, the first confidence vote is completed at the team level. The second vote is at the ART level after the Risks have been "ROAM'd". Suggested Improvements: View the vote by Team in the PI view. Show a separate line for each voting session b...
2 months ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 0 Under review

Instana observabiltiy console - grant access to specific vSphere Datacenter

We monitoring multiple vSphere Datacenters, but we would like have option to grant access to view them separtely, same like for Kubernetes view
2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Under review

BI - Reuse of colors/Edit colors

Due to reuse of colors, can’t identify legend, due to color duplication on charts. Color palettes need to editable, as when trying to stay consistent, say with a given Vendor on multiple charts, the color should remain consistent, not vary each time.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

Views - Can't see who created/using

Admins can't see who created a given View and who is using. We are left with stale Views do to not being able to validate if still in use or if a View is owned by someone that is no longer with company or changed roles. Also a way to easily downlo...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Views 2 Planned for future release

Cloudability Ownership/Users of Reports and Dashboards

It'd be helpful to see a "creation date" and and "created by" value for each dashboard, and report. As an Admin to also have access to see reports that aren't shared with Organization. When personnel leave company or role, can't remove/reassign fr...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Additional field recognized as numeric needed for contract variance analysis.

We are maturing our planning capabilities and have come to the conclusion that a 3% price increase on our contracts is no longer sufficient across the board. In order to forecast more accurately, we are comparing a vendor's current contract price ...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Planned for future release

Enhancement of Quick Filters to display more than 150 recent entities

Currently Quick Filters has a limitation of the entities which shows 150 recently viewed items. This makes some of them invisible unless the name will be used un the search.
8 months ago in Targetprocess / Filters 0 Needs more information

Instana agent not to monitor openshift "system" namespaces

At this moment instana agent when deployed on OpenShift kubernetes cluster reports monitoring issues for some (not all) of the openshift system apps deployed in system napespaces (namespaces that begin with openshift-* or kube-*). We do not want t...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Need to enhance the AIX / LPAR monitoring as the basic monitoring is not sufficient to understand the performance problems.

After speaking to the IBM Power Sales team, existing AIX metrices are not sufficient even when enhanced with the IBM pHMC sensor metrices. The customers are relying on the vmstat/iostat/nmon commands to extract reports and do manual work of assess...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Ingest Turbonomic Topology

Ability to ingest infrastructure topology from Turbo would allow for a more granular/comprehensive view across our IT Ecosystem. This would lead to faster resolution of IT incidents.
over 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration