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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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Support for PHP Sensor on native IBM i agent.

Any customer using PHP on IBM i would likely benefit from having support for this service.
12 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Support for Apache Sensor on native IBM i agent

Apache is a commonly used open source web server that is likely adopted by many IBM i customers. Having sensor support would allow Apache services to be seen in calls/dependency mapping.
12 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Improve Right Sizing ROI policy to filter out different types (e.g. ignore EBS gp2/sc1 recommendations)

Currently seeing lot's of recommendations to change EBS to GP2. AWS is strongly recommending moving GP2 to GP3 so it's bizarre to recommend the reverse. Want to alter the policy to ignore such options, or only show GP3.
13 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Request for Policy limit Increase and Consolidation Option

We are unable to create a new policy for rightsizing because we have reached the policy limit target (30 policies). we have multiple Line of Business (LOBs), and each LOB requires three policies-one for each service: Compute, Disk, and SQL. We kin...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

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

Cloudability - Usage Stats

As a Cloudability admin, I should be able to pull usage statistics directly to understand and improve tool adoption. This should include statistics like count of unique users over time, features used within the tool.
19 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

BI - Ability to see who is subscribed to or accessing Reports

Admins need a way to see who is subscribed to or accessing/viewing the report/dashboard to allow for notification if report/dashboard is planned for deletion. When personnel change roles or leave company, we are stuck with old reports that can't b...
19 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 3

Improve currently non-intuitive Right-Sizing policies and ROI functionality

1) When creating a right-sizing policy, clicking "Save and Run" will only generate tickets according to the schedule, rather than to run the policy immediately. This is confusing. If I set a Daily schedule and click Save and Run it will generate a...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Planned for future release

ITP: Need bulk upload ability to input Targets in a Plan

Users need ability to bulk upload Targets in ITP rather than having to enter manually, especially in the case of Cost Center level targets. Our organization has hundreds of Cost Centers that require a target.
13 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

LDAP multiple domains authentication

In current version Instana allow to configure only one LDAP connection.If domains are in tree in theory it should work:For example:aaa.com (points to first domain controller)Domain 1: xzy.aaa.com (first domain controller)Domain 2: 123.aaa.comDomai...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration