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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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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
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Needs more information

Requesting slicers be enhanced to cater for “single selection”

Currently we have a filter where have an option to select multiple values from the filter, but we would like to have single selection from the filter. So that we can see values only apply to the particular quarter.
10 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Needs more information

Table widgets don't allow Application (Traces and Calls) and Logs as Data Source

Table widgets don't allow to add Application (Traces and Calls) or Logs as Data Source. There are several dashboard requirement where table structure for display data. Should also support heatmaps for data.
8 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 6 Needs more information

change of column from Azure CSP cost report for customer price

We have an environment where the end customer pricing is already configured in Azure CSP. The Azure cost exports contain a column AX "paygCostInBillingCurrency" with the end customer pricing. Cloudability currently only uses the column AU "costInB...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 1 Needs more information

Generic Entity Types creation by native OpenTelemetry (OTEL) infrastructure data instead of Otel-Collector Entity

Instana currently supports a variety of entity types—including infrastructure entities (hosts, containers, Java processes) and trace-specific entities (services, endpoints, applications). While the Instana sensors offer powerful application monito...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Needs more information

Enhance / Enable service flow map with metrics on service relation

Please Enable display of service metrics on service relation in Instana UI service flow map
2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 3 Needs more information

Calculations where data from two clusters are needed

SLT (Service Level Target) calculation: First off, I appreciate IBM helping us on this as this use case is totally outside of the product capability/feature realm. We discussed SevOne Kafka, RNA/RIA options. For this use case, I am totally open fo...
25 days ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 1 Needs more information

To add custom time range in instana chart filter/query

We don't have an option to add custom time range in a chart query - like need to display a chart for last 1 day but without changing time filter of the overall dashboard
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Needs more information

Would like to see subfolders in TBM Studio

Having subfolders to organize documents would be helpful because with only one layer the amount of documents makes it hard to sort through and organize.
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Needs more information

Create view level permission for SavingsPlanFeatureFullAccess

Hi, Our team would find it very useful if we could have a view only alternative to the following role in order to assign a more granular version to our customers: SavingsPlanFeatureFullAccess
2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) / User Management & Login 0 Needs more information