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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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Turbo does not support SQL database scaling actions between vCore and DTU pricing models

Turbonomics can scale up/down existing tiers but cannot change the service tier (vCore to DTU) or provision an elastic pool. Existing customer would like to use it now. Could this be considered to be an enhancement to address this limitation?
12 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

Enabling the option of ordering SLOs by status

We would like to have the option to order SLOs by status AND/OR having the change to filter those which have their budget exhausted. This feature at the Service Levels panel would make the tools more user-friendly, in my opinion.
21 days ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

Adapt number format to regional conventions for decimal and thousands separator

For European users, the display of amounts in the American format can be quite annoying. E.g. The numeric fields are formatted using the American conventions: - point as decimal separator - comma as thousands separator e.g. 880,000.00 In Germany, ...
21 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Submitted

Limit the number of children events in Scope Based Event Grouping Policy

Currently, any number of children events can be added to a parent event or group using Scope Based Event Grouping. At present, 100s of events can be grouped under a single parent group. However, there should be a way to limit the number of childre...
21 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Include Disk USED vs Provisioned as a rightsizing recommendation

As a new rightsizing opportunity, for customers who have enhanced CW metrics enabled on their EC2 instances could we look to including a capability to check the actually utilized disk vs what was provisioned, eg: you're only using 10GB of a 1TB pr...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Need ability to refresh token within REST 2.0 API call

Need the REST Service 2.0 Beta to request and refresh the authentication 'bearer token' for an API call so that I don't have to manually request the token using a service like Postman.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Need options other than helm to install the synthetic PoP servers

I'm working with a customer that has access to the kubernetes cluster, but doesn't have access to helm. So, he can't install the synthetic playback (PoP server). We need to provide other options for installing the PoP server. Ideally, provide both...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Object Groups in the Metadata widget: Allow the source group to be a Class. Allow for a regex pattern to filter the object groups within the selected Class.

It would allow the widget to display object groups that were dynamically added. It would allow more control over which groups get displayed.
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Instana observing MinIO Object Storage

MinIO’s enterprise class features represent the standard in the object storage space. Customer needs to have observability at this level, more detail in this: https://min.io/product/overview
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Under review

Add an integration with a source code management/testing tools such as GitHub/GitLab/Jenkins to measure Four Key Metrics(DORA Metrics)

Background: In today's software development landscape, achieving high performance in delivering software is crucial for gaining a competitive edge. DORA(DevOps Reaserch and Assessment) Metric, also known as the Four Key Metrics, provide a standard...
2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review