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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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GCP Workflow Plugin: Enable Custom Project ID for Execution

We request the implementation of a new feature in the Google Cloud Workflows plugin (12.2.0.03) for IBM Workload Automation (IWS) that allows users to explicitly specify a Google Cloud Project ID for workflow execution. Currently, it appears that ...
3 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

GCP Workflow Plugin: Allow Specifying Different Billing/Quota Project

Currently, the Google Cloud Workflows plugin (12.2.0.03) for IBM Workload Automation (IWS) appears to limit workflow execution to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project associated with the Service Account specified in the IWS connection definitio...
3 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Adding sustainability metrics to rightsizing recommendations

There is strong evidence industry wide that a large percentage of engineers are more likely to take action based off carbon emission reduction recommendation than cost. ( largely as engineers may not have a budget responsibility as part of their r...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Turbonomic | Added support for Parquet format in the CUR report.

Some customers have already exported their cost reports, but instead of using gzip - text/csv, they are using Parquet, which is generally more efficient. In such cases, they have to recreate the reports, so it would be helpful if Parquet format co...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

Enable host availability percentage (% Uptime) for a given time period

Calculating the host uptime percentage is essential, as it provides a simple yet critical metric that reflects how long a server has been available compared to the total monitoring period. This measurement is vital for assessing the reliability of...
5 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Automatically reconfigure host to add/remove licensed hosts for Turbonomic with Flexera integration

As a user of the Turbonomic integration with Flexera, I would like my host groups managed/automated in such a way that i do not have to create and update them, and when there is demand for additional licensed hosts Turbonomic will be able to recon...
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

Align the Azure region names in Cloudability with the actual Azure region names

As can be seen in the attachment, Azure provide two region name standards via the API; PricesExtract.Items.armRegionName which is currently used as the second part of the region name in cloudability, and PricesExtract.Items.location which currentl...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Submitted

Add support for X.509 certificate-based authentication in the MariaDB sensor for Instana.

Currently, the Instana MariaDB sensor does not support SSL or X.509 certificate-based authentication. Our customer(BWI) uses X.509 authentication for all database access, and despite following the documented configuration steps, the sensor fails t...
5 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Request for HTTP Communication Support in Instana SaaS

Some customers only allow HTTP communication to monitor all outbound traffic from their environment. Currently, on-premises deployments support both HTTP and HTTPS configurations, but SaaS deployments only allow communication over HTTPS. We kindly...
25 days ago in Instana / Agent 3 Submitted

Provide ability to surface all CUR columns in Cloudability's reporting

Many of our customers have custom use cases that require more fields in the CUR than Cloudability provides. An example is the Legal Entity field. Surfacing Legal Entity would enable better visibility into the 3rd party vendor that is being purchas...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

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