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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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Adding status metrics for the IBM MQ v9+ object

The sensor for IBM Data Power and the object IBM MQ v9+ supports only Back-End Active Connections and Front-End Active Connections metrics. However it is important to know the status of the object because it has a tendency to shut down when IBM MQ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / DataPower 0 Submitted

'Turbonomic Parker' role not available in Cloudability Premium

Turbonomic standard software has a user named 'Parker' allowing users to manage start/stop and schedule of their VMs in the parking feature. Parker role only gives them access to this. This 'Parker' role doesn't exist in Cloudability Premium which...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / User Management & Login 1 Submitted

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.
2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Views - Can't see who created/using

Admins can't see who created a given View and who is using. We are left with stale Views do to not being able to validate if still in use or if a View is owned by someone that is no longer with company or changed roles. Also a way to easily downlo...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Submitted

Cloudability: S3 Bucket Prefixes

We are trying to use Apptio to analyze my AWS costs, but I noticed that it doesn't support S3 bucket prefixes. That means I can't filter or group my data by different prefixes within the same bucket. That's a bummer, because I have a lot of prefix...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

FinOps Review Framework And Data Governance in FinOps

Cloud cost are managed through resource tagging, cloud account Identifiers and various FinOps engineering, finance team, cost owners concept created within the organization to retrieve various aspect of cost reporting. On top of these constructs A...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Plugin Amazon S3 - Using Proxy for AWS S3 Connections

We are experiencing an issue with the "s3" plugin in IBM IWS (Amazon S3 integration). It appears that the plugin does not use the configured proxy settings to connect to AWS S3, resulting in a connection failure. Please check out the case I opened...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

AI-Powered Chatbot for Cloudability Assistance

One of my customers - DLA Piper, proposed adding an AI-powered chatbot (similar to ChatGPT) to assist users with Cloudability-related queries and tasks. This chatbot would provide real-time, step-by-step guidance, improving user experience and red...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Support for Apache HTTPd in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for Apache HTTPd, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 0 Submitted

Support for PHP in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for PHP, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
3 months ago in Instana / PHP / Sensor / Tracing 0 Submitted