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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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Read Only Users

A Read-Only user, similar to the Observer user type in TargetProcess.The key difference here, is the Read Only user only has access to data, where they are given access to.Preferably, this becomes a User Type, making a touchless setup possible for...
10 days ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Submitted

Bug reports are not publicly available and it is not possible to determine if the trouble that is occurring is known.

Bug reports are not publicly available and it is not possible to determine if the trouble that is occurring is known. Some fixed bugs are listed in the release notes and github update comments, but unfixed and in-progress bugs are only shared with...
10 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Add information for K8s/OCPs to the release notes in the Instana documentation

We are very pleased to see the release notes for Instana Agent/Sensor/Tracer being added.However, users of Instana with K8s/OCPs should also gather the following information. These can currently only be obtained from the individual githubs. YAML h...
11 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Maintain Identity of Stateful Workloads Running on Spot Instances

As a Turbonomic User, Cloud Engineer and FinOps Practitioner I want to maintain the identity of stateful workloads currently managed by Spot.io so that when a "recycle" occurs in Spot.io and the disk is detached and reattached to a new compute ins...
11 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Discover Spot Rates

As a Turbonomic User and Data Engineer I want to see the billing rate for Spot instances, and pull that data via the Turbo API for custom reports. Currently, if the billing type = bidding, the billing rate is not discovered and exposed anywhere in...
11 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

Instance Id to be included in actions excel for VMs and Databases, the way it is for Volumes

Hi Team, We download the Actions Center Excel file and share it with business owners for their approval. Many of the actions in the downloaded file appear identical. While the Turbonomic UI displays different Instance IDs for these actions, the Ex...
19 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Function (“Popup Message”) to inform users about maintenance work or updates

We recently had the problem that incorrect values/numbers were displayed to users in the reports (CT) due to an upload error. In this case, we unfortunately had no way of informing the users in Apptio that incorrect values currently exist (and tha...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 1 Submitted

Customisable legend in AIOps Topology Viewer

Looking at the screenshot attached, we are using some custom background and border colors. Within the topology view, there is a legend, which explains to the users, what the icons and colors in a topology visualisation mean. Having a customisable ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Capability to monitor database blockings & wait times in instana

We are unable to monitor databases using Instana, as we don't see options for tracking database blocking, wait times, and similar metrics. Databases: RDS Postgre MSSQL
4 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

I want it to also support Microsoft.Data.SqlClient

I would like Microsoft.Data.SqlClient to be supported so that I can get SQL stack traces for instana.
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 5 Planned for future release