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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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Ensure 100 % Trace Visibility Across All Time‑Range Buckets

Problem / Use-case We learned that Instana rolls traces and spans into “time-buckets.” on serverside , for short and long term based traces, for operational technical reasons. Short presets such as Last 5 min or Last 15 min use very fine buckets (...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

BI reports local download feat.

Current process of exporting data/reports via email adds up extra step to the workflow. The tool triggers an email with URL instead of local downloads creating a second hop & adding additional step to get the dataset required for breakdown ana...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Broadcom APM inetgration with Apptio Cloudability for Memory Utilization

We are currently using Apptio Cloudability for cloud cost optimization and visibility, and we rely on memory utilization data to generate accurate rightsizing recommendations. As part of this setup, Apptio typically requires CloudWatch Agents or D...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Under review

Add customer branding to the User Interface

The idea is to allow configuration of custom logo and theme colors across the UI (and alerts like Email). Since Instana has a wide range capabilitiles, some customers use Instana as a stand-alone tool without other dashboarding solutions. The UI b...
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

Enhance Google Cloud Storage (GCS) Integration Plugin to Support Uploading Files into Specific Bucket Folders

Currently, the Google Cloud Storage integration plugin (version 10.2.0.04) successfully uploads files directly to the root level of a specified GCS bucket. However, it lacks the capability to upload files into a specific folder (or prefix/subdirec...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Include "Savings Plan Negation" but exclude "Contractual Credits" under Credits

The Credits include "Savings Plan Negation" and "Contractual Credits". We need to include "Savings Plan Negation" but exclude "Contractual Credits" in order to obtain accurate forecasts. Please add more granularity for the type of Credits
2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Provide out of the box reports on device/object discovery

As SevOne does auto rediscovery of devices regularly, provide OOTB reports on the following: List of new devices discovered over the past 24 hours or other pre-determined time frame List of new objects discovered by device List of deleted objects ...
2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Ability to add percentage column in allocation table reports to understand the allocated percentage of each item.

As of today, we can create a report taking a cost metric as Cost(amortized) or Cost (Total) for a selected dimensions to list all items under the dimensions with their allocated cost. Requirement is to have an option to also add a column which is ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Future consideration

vm automation policies when vm state is idle - include actions also against any attached volumes

All public cloud scale events require downtime. Downtime involves stopping any services running on these IaaS instances during an action execution activity. If a vm has a park schedule or maintenance window, then this is the ideal time to resize (...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 6 Planned for future release

enable 'resize when powered off' to work with public cloud vm's

Anyone with public cloud vm's where they want to create an automation policy that executes only when a said vm is idle
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Planned for future release