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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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Acknowledging alert

Currently, when an alert is triggered in Instana, our operations team receives a notification. While this is a crucial step in our monitoring workflow, we find that the process of acknowledging these alerts is not as streamlined as we would like i...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

Call Alter

We would like the ability to restrict the default level of access for users of Turbonomic, particularly Site Administrators. Before a user can manually execute action of modify a policy, we would like to require that the user receive temporary acc...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Support OpenSearch as Self-Hosted datastore

As an user of the Self Hosted Instana Backend/Datastore, it would be beneficial to be able to replace ElasticSearch with OpenSerach (Interpropability of ES and OS). OpenSearch is available as a managed service on AWS or as K8s operator (https://gi...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration

Datalink Classic Cloudability connector -request for selecting dates for connection

Hello,  can you please add functionality to allow selection of the days of the month on which the connection should run? The request is for functionality that allows selection of the days on which the connection should run until the end of ti...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Schedule workspace to automatically check in changes

We would like to be able to schedule the automatically check in to our spaces to eliminate joint check in's and waiting time. In our case, we work in 2 teams from 2 different countries, therefore we currently allign on each check in we perform in ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Configuration at menu of the TEP console that allow to change the font size of the menu

Hi There could be an option in the configuration menu of the TEP(Tivoli Enterprise Portal) to increase the font size of the menus of the TEP. Thanks.
5 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Future consideration

Application component actions don't have enough information

If you check the application component pending actions (heap resize) and extract the list to a spreadsheet or print the screen, there's nothing to separate for each area. There's no column for Account or Container cluster as example. In this case,...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Bring your own database

Resiliency is top of mind when maintaining a critical system such as Cloud pak for AIOps. Many enterprises have existing databases available to be used with existing approved backup/restore plans. If enterprises could bring their own database that...
5 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Defining metrics collection with filter on resources name (or equivalent way to avoid colecting ALL of that metric), as a way to scale the deployment.

We have enabled collection of metric from APM (Dynatrace) and the definition of the connection do not allow to define filtering for the resources we are interested on, so enabling metrics that applied to many resources will cause a big amount of K...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Expand Cost Transparency Column Filtering Double Pipe Character

·    Who is the user or role?  Anyone using CT to view data in a screen, wanting to use a double-pipe character in the column filter, as well as other column filters.  At current, no other column filters can be used at t...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted