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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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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...
18 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

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...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 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...
15 days ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

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...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 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?
15 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Functionality already exists

Allow for BI report to be default login report

When one logs into Cloudability the home screen is Cloudability Dashboard. Would like Preferences to allow User to select a BI Report to be home screen at login.
about 3 hours ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Create a way to schedule or script the manual steps to refresh the source for Enriched Editable Tables

Enriched editable tables let us feed calculated data into the editable tables, however the data isn't able to update for new rows or overwritten data. A lookup in the script* can work when added/editing a row but if the source data changes after t...
about 4 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Allow seeing and credentialing Azure subscriptions in Cloudability even if they have no cost data, so commitments purchased in "commitment-only" subscriptions can be ingested/displayed

Some customers create dedicated "commitment-only" linked accounts or subscriptions in which they only purchase reserved instances and savings plans but don't operate resources. This is a best practice for mature FinOps organizations because it max...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Submitted

Update documentation for "Backing up and restoring data" with the steps for 1.1.5

Documentation to backup 1.1.5 does not show the steps to upgrade helm using the install.sh script. Please add supported method within V1.1.5 or later versions using install.sh https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rapid-infra-auto/1.1.x?topic=backend-backin...
1 day ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 0 Submitted

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