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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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Align the data colors between 2 graphs in Container Cost Allocation >> Treemap page

The 2 visual components refer to the same data - but the colors for each component is different between them - which makes it harder for the user to track the data.
8 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Enable Option to Restrict Output in TopN or Performance Report When Device Group is Selected in a Variables option in DI report

Overview: When creating a report in DI (Data Insight), selecting a device group in the variables option results in displaying data for all devices and objects under that group. For example, if a site is selected as the device group and it contains...
8 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

enable read only view to peers tab under cluster manager option

There is a requirement to provide read only access to peers tab under cluster manager option to users. this will help users to view the current capacity of the SevOne clustered appliances and help plan if any additional infra needs to be added.
8 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Planned for future release

Enhanced change log and version control system

Summary: Introduce a change log and version control system to track modifications made to business mappings, tags/labels, account group mappings, and views within the platform, allowing users to view, compare, and revert changes as needed. Use cas...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Submitted

Kafka Sensor: Support Kafka Kraft Deployments

In Kafka Zookeeper deployments are deprecated since Confluent kafka 7.5 https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/kafka-metadata/zk-production.html Even though IBM Instana Kafka Agent supports Confluent Kafka 7.7.1 according to Support Sheet http...
22 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Instana Smart Alerts Time Thresholds

Current Smart Alert Evaluation granularity scale is between 1 - 30 minutes.We would need alerts much sooner, 10 seconds would be ideal. Can this scale minimum be changed to less than 1 minute?
22 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

ENCRYPTED PASSWORD SECURITY IN DB2 METRICS MONITORING

We were trying to setup remote DB2 monitoring, however connection is failing. Our DB2 admin told us, he is using options securityMechanism=7;encryptionAlgorithm=2 when connecting to that DB2 using jdbc. By my understanding that really means User I...
3 months ago in Instana / DB2 0 Under review

Able to query the Instana Events in Grafana

Hi team, There has been a need to have Instana Events in Grafana, the same way as we do right now in the Custom Dashboards, basically, be able to query Critical/Warning and present them in a Grafana widget. Thank you.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Add Additional Rightsizing ROI Metrics to ApptioBI Metrics

Our end users would like their potential rightsizing savings and realized savings metrics added to their base ApptioBI reports. Since Cloudability has the Rightsizing ROI report trackingr realized savings, why can't the realized savings metric als...
23 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Easily identify nodes in a Kubernetes cluster (workers, infra, masters)

Easily identify in the UI the nodes in a Kubernetes cluster (workers, infrastructure and masters).