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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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Need to separate owner group mapping to prevent locking owners out

Hello Colleagues, we have several customers who locked out owner's user account while configuring LDAP mapping. It is one time operation, but affects all enterprise customers and often causes questions, requires several attempts in self-hosted env...
5 months ago in Instana / Access Control 4 Not under consideration

Integration with Greenpixie for sustainability data

Greenpixie is a leader in enriching AWS cost data with detailed sustainability metrics. Having sustainability information in Cloudability along other cost and utilisation information would bring GreenOps and FinOps together based on trusted and ac...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review

Plugin Amazon S3 - Using Proxy for AWS S3 Connections

We are experiencing an issue with the "s3" plugin in IBM IWS (Amazon S3 integration). It appears that the plugin does not use the configured proxy settings to connect to AWS S3, resulting in a connection failure. Please check out the case I opened...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Add Project Settings option for Number Formatting to apply to all tables (not shown via reports)

As a TBMA, I would like to see numbers displayed in non-report tables displayed in TBM Studio formatted with a thousands and/or decimal places, when defined in a new "Number Formatting" option in Project Settings. The formatting will not only assi...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 1 Under review

Have a method to script for a custom metric

Summary: Provide a custom metric method for the IBM Instana agent which a script (perl/java/sh/etc) could be hosted within the IBM Instana agent and would run at set intervals. The output would then be published to the backend on the node/server. ...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4 Not under consideration

Configuration of Application Perspective spanning over multiple custom tag filter criteria in End-to-End view

Configuration of Application Perspective spanning over multiple custom tag filter criteria in End-to-End view We need urgently a way to build application perspective views based on discrete call tags that arise at various points in service hierarc...
9 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 4 Planned for future release

As a user I would like to push Kafka topics to multiple brokers/consumers, so that I can use built-in SaaS reporting as well as provide the data for internal BI teams

Please see attached for details for consideration. It would provide great benefit to be able to utilize kafka connectors to asynchronously push data to other consumers rather than the current 1:1 producer:consumer to data explorer today.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Future consideration

Provide integration with CyberArk and/or gMSA into SQL Probe for password access/management/key rotation.

Provide integration with CyberArk and/or gMSA into SQL Probe for password access/management/key rotation.in organizations where security is paramount (which is the majority of companies now) it is a security threat to have Service Accounts where i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 1 Future consideration

Corporate Font addtion to Studio

We have been following an ideation of having the option to have Corporate Colours added to Studio for reporting and have heard this has been built and will be in an upgrade soon. Would it also be possible to have Corporate Fonts added as an option...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

We need MessageBus probe to support OAuth2 for webhook callbackUri, to provide token to network devices

MessageBus probe webhook supports Basic Authentication and no authentication. One of Samsung elements asks for OAuth2 to callbackUri, which does not supported by messageBus. We would like to have MessageBus probe to support OAuth2 and provide toke...
9 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Planned for future release