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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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Customizable metric multiplier / threshold for rightsizing recommendation

In some production enviroments, workloads are intentionally overprovisioned to allow for burst capacity, stability or failover requirements.In most cases this is has to do with compliance and regulations bound apps. We propose addig a metric multi...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

take off the menu bar when I save a dashboard as PDF

the customer wants to save the information that a dashboard shows, but the PDF shows a menu bar over the information. I uploaded the PDF that was generated with the menu bar and the second file is an example without the menu bar.
14 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
16 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Show snoozed recommendations comments in API call

When doing an API call for snoozed recommendations a great feature would be to also receive the comments left on the resource as well as the user who left those comments. This can be used as control as well as general understanding of reasons to s...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Gateway for Message Bus should support additional fields for Gate.XMLGateway.MessageKey property

If integrating the OMNIbus gateway for message bus with Kafka the property Gate.XMLGateway.MessageKey only supports either the field ServerSerial or ServerName.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/netcoolomnibus/8.0.0?topic=file-properties-command-line-opt...
14 days ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
29 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

VMem Request recommendation mode - resize ABOVE max

Select the bottom to enable/disable recommendation's generation below and ABOVE the VMem Request value. Adding a screenshot of the tool with the below option already available. Would be possible to add the resize ABOVE, too?
14 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Functionality already exists

Send Alert Notifications on MS Teams

Hello Team, It would be useful to have the Alerts generated by SevOne to be able to send to a specific MS Teams channel so everyone on the team are able to view them and troubleshoot them promptly.
about 9 hours ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Submitted

Team Iteration Column Header Adjustment

Out of the box, the column header for Team Iterations is configured in a way that is confusing to most companies/teams/users -- details are currently based on Assigned Effort and Velocity (total effort completed), but they should be based on Assig...
about 9 hours ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Submitted

Enhancements to Variance Analysis

In addition to the capability to compare the variance for Full Year (FY) between to forecast plans (actuals + forecast) in Variance Analysis. We still need improvements before we can migrate from our current approach (outside of Apptio) to using V...
about 12 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted