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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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'order-by' functionality for the traces api

We are in need of 'order-by' functionality for the traces(/api/application-monitoring/analyze/traces) api. We have executed the following request with this body as a post request to /api/application-monitoring/analyze/traces . But we haven't recei...
4 months ago in Instana / API-C 0 Future consideration

Have a simple interface for bulk-adding targets

When adding new features, like initial install of multiple vCenters or adding Databases to an existing installation (pretty much any type target that may have multiple entities), on the "add target" screen have the option to select a CSV file for ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Not under consideration

Instana UI - show change history of instana configuration changes in the gui

We are running enterprise monitoring with instana. Changes to instana configuration such as creation or change to application perspectives, alerts, maintenance windows etc. should displayed to users (eg. as already possible with button history for...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Warning Message for +5m rows in cldy_monthly_aws and cldy_monthly_azure

Hi, It would be great to include a warning message for big cloud bill loads into A1, to advise things to check to slim down this dataset. So for example: Resource Level information should not be includedUsage Date should not be includedItem Descri...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Planned for future release

Support for Branch Description Text in Studio

Branches are usually created for a specific reason and many clients archive branches for later reference. It becomes difficult for the users/admins to recall the purpose the branch was created when the archived branch gets too old but still needs ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Enrichment of the synthetic alerts (parents) with flags of the grouped alerts (children)

In the NOI version (1.6.4), the synthetic alerts (parents) are displayed WITHOUT (correlation) flags in the alerts views. This is very confusing, especially when the alerts are sorted. It would be useful to enrich the synthetic alerts (parents) wi...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

How do I identify the view “creator” amongst the owners with UI or API

How do I identify the view “creator” amongst the owners? There is no indicator, that I’m aware of, for who created the view and this is an issue we would like to avoid in the future.
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

'Current Transfers' does not match time span

For MFT, if you change the time span on the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' dashboard the 'Transfer Statistics' chart is updated with the new time span. For the 'Current Transfers' table this does not happen, and it will only show the tran...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

URLs for direct access to Action Center & Action Center Details

Desired customer use case: Customer is leveraging webhooks to send pending Turbo actions directly to end-users. They want a way to expose a link that takes the user directly to the Action Center Details view for a given entity/action. Today, we ca...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Request to enhance the JDBC gateway to enable connections to two Databases in a single gateway process

Request to allow JDBC gateway to write to two databases in a single gateway process - This allows us to write to different databases at the same time ensuring the delivery of all alarms to both the databases simultaneously.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration