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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 multi-year TARGETs

We do a lot of multi-year budgeted, but are unable to leverage the TARGETS feature because it only applies to the first year of the "plan". We need multi-year TARGETs to match our state biennial budget cycle.
26 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Managing Plans - Grouping and Access

To help with useability of Planning especially if you have multiple plans - 1) Have a grouping of plans - would allow the drop down to have the group first and then open to see the plans within the group 2) Allow users to be given permission and o...
27 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Instana built-in health metrics

Instana backend provide built-in dashboard panels showing basic health metrics e.g. agent connection status, data delivery etc., backend data ingress and data ingestion status e.g. infrastructure, eum, events, user and apm
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Future consideration

Feature to convert "Global smart alert" to "Application smart alert" when we do it from application perspective !!

For instance, if we have a global smart alert for 404 errors with a static threshold of 5%, and there are 50+ applications that require different thresholds, the ability to convert the global smart alert to an application smart alert from within t...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Option to stop auto resolve events or smart alerts.

Having the ability to disable auto-resolution for smart alerts or events would provide greater control over how they are closed. For example, if I want HTTP 500 smart alerts to remain unresolved until I've added all the case notes, gathered necess...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 4 Future consideration

Replace VMware tools shutdown command with SevOne shutdown command for proper shutdown

All VMware customers, would mean one triggered from the vCenter interface will then properly shutdown the machine. /etc/vmware-tools/poweroff-vm-default/etc/vmware-tools/restart-vm-default
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

I want it to also support Microsoft.Data.SqlClient

I would like Microsoft.Data.SqlClient to be supported so that I can get SQL stack traces for instana.
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 5 Planned for future release

Domain Management -> "API Keys Disabled" checkbox FAR too easy to click

There was an issue lodged by the customer that their Datalink Connections were all failing and they didn't know why. Upon Engineering investigation, it turned out that API keys had been disabled and working with the customer to identify how, user:...
14 days ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Anomaly Detection - Provide Account Group Tag & Export functionality

As a FinOps Practitioner, I need to be able to allocate anomalies detected to the appropriate owner, however, am not able to pull in account group tag info. I am not able to export the data in the anomaly module from the UI, but I can use the API ...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

NetApp AFF-A700 support

Telefonica has lot of NetApp AFF-A700 models, which is specifically excluded in the documentation (NetApp target).https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/tarm/8.15.0?topic=targets-netapp