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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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ApptioScript On Save of Editable Table

Would love to be able add ApptioScript on editable tables to run "on save" (rather than on load, on row add, on duplication, or on cell edit). This would allow the script to run when users press the save button on an editable table vs. when it is ...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Validation Rule for Program/Group Entity

The Program/Group Entity is not present in the Validation Rule.Ask : We should be able to create a validation rule for Program/Group Entity
5 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Improve tracing visibility

Hello, I tried to install UserTracing exit on MQ 9.4.0.0 on linux. Here after is my data chain : MQ 9.4.0.0 -> UserTracing exit -> otelcol -> jaeger backend ->grafana It works, and gives tracing times, but unfortunately, it's not as ad...
5 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

The VMware Target should have the check box just like the Dynatrace Target (Collect Tag Information)

Right now if the same tag comes in from VMware and the APM target you're going to get duplication. Let the customer decide if they want the duplication. I recommend that the default value is YES. The other option is to have smart logic choosing wh...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 3 Not under consideration

Instana should allow to raise Events -> Alerts based upon log messages

Instana currently relies on metrics to create Events which can raise Alerts. Applications often have some known error codes or messages which refer to specific issues that may not be immediately evident by some of the metrics collected by the solu...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Logging 0 Future consideration

Add business metrics to Instana traces for IIB and ACE

The current implementation of both IBM Integration Bus (IIB) and App Connect Enterprise (ACE) could emit business metrics through monitoring events which are published through MQ topics. A similar implementation with the connection through OpenTel...
about 1 year ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 1 Future consideration

Multiple Labor Allocation Rule Reference Data Versions

The ability to save different versions of Labor Allocation Rules to be used for current year Forecast and next year Budget.  The facilities loadings, vacancy rates, bonus %, insurance costs, etc vary from year-to-year.  We currently must...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Notifications of Build Completions

It would be nice to have an option to select a specific build and be notified (email) when the Staging calculation is completed instead of logging back into TBM Studio and check status.
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

HAProxy backend to show more than 300 backend servers

Currently Instana shows 299 backend servicer and 1 Frondend servers. Our environment has more than ~1000 Servers. This feature is to increase and show more than 300 backend and Frontend servers.
5 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

Self-hosted synthetic pop deployment via stanctl - "stanctl pop up"

Implement`stanctl pop up` including k3s installation.
5 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Planned for future release