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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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Enable Views to be shared based on role assignment rather than named users.

Support Case Ref:00355348 This applies to Apptio TOTALCOST including Cloudability and TBM Studio/Cost Transparency. Our access management approach is such that we expose certain features to our end users based on their Mission Organization. A Mi...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 1 Submitted

Instana Pod Monitoring on Windows Nodes

The current requirement is to enable Instana pod monitoring on a Windows worker node in the absence of a Linux worker node within the cluster. This necessitates the implementation of Windows pod monitoring capability within the existing framework.
10 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Future consideration

Monitoring Artemis MQ with Instana

Dear IBM Team, We utilize extensive queuing for our applications and are planning to transition to Artemis. To ensure seamless monitoring, we would like to integrate Artemis MQ with Instana. Thank you for your assistance. Best regards, Meghraj Ram...
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

Need to monitor compiled python applications with any name of the application

Dear Colleagues, Our customer is using third party python application that they need to trace and monitor, the third-party vendor has issued the application image instrumented with Instana, but the application is compiled for performance reasons a...
8 months ago in Instana / Python 0 Planned for future release

Improve Documentation UI for blocks in Workflow editor

At present the only way to view what a block does (for most integrations) is to hover over a tooltip and read the contents. The problem is that these tooltips are sometimes empty, vague, cut off out of the UI or just don't render for some reason. ...
5 months ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 0 Future consideration

Partner access that removes access to see fully loaded costs and work out the enterprise discount

Within my client they work extensively with external entities [TCS, CTS, WIPRO etc] to manage their infrastructure. They do not want to allow these partners to see the full costs in cloudability that are shown in the dashboarding and insights pane...
5 months ago in Cloudability 0 Submitted

Add owner of the Application Perspective in the Configuration tab

Please add the username/name of the person who created the Application Perspective in the Configuration tab, that way we know who created it. Thank you.
10 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Instana kubernetes container memory monitoring improvement

What is your recommendation for monitoring memory usage for kubernetes pods/containers? So far we are using this in Instana: Kubernetes -> Container -> Memory Usage. (Prefer this as compared to pods because sidecars can get in the way) The p...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

Totals, sub-totals, summaries for cards on views

Calculate and show totals, subtotals across filtered cards Show totals for columns in list views (in headers or footers) Show totals for cells, for column/row headers in board views Use them to summarize total effort, time spent/remain, co...
over 5 years ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Remove requirement to set Automation level on every Volume policy

Currently, with VM policies, you can add or ignore every variable in the policy menu. By this i mean that i can have a policy blocking instance types, and i don't have to also select Manual or Automatic. I can leave that section blank and allow ot...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Not under consideration