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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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Add integration for Dynatrace to ingest granular metrics for Virtual Machine rightsizing

Currently Cloudability supports New Relic and Datadog for VM utilisation metrics - please can you add support for Dynatrace
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Handle Zero or NA value in Calculated metric

We are using Insights to get notified if % change value is more than 10% over a period of time. To calculate % change over previous period, the logic used is: % change = (Current period cost - Previous period cost ) / Previous period cost The prob...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Additional data required while monitoring Oracle DB

Customer is interested to view more details while monitoring Oracle Databases using Instana. 1) SQL ID CPU Usage section shows all details except CPU Usage %. Also it would be useful to expand details about each Instana ID. 2) TOP CPU Consuming Se...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Snapshot Forecast Version compare across any periods in A1

As a Service Owner I want to be able to compare my forecast version across any periods (i.e. P01-P12) in A1.  So, that I can see what is my forecast version in any period compare to any other period.  In addition, the version should not ...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

We would like to have the Azure RG level CO2 Emission details within Turbo Sustainability Dashboard

Hello Team, We have gone through the Turbo Sustainability dashboard which includes good amount of info in it. We would like to also have a widget which includes the Azure RG level Emission details. This will give a complete picture of our Emission...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Sustainability 0 Planned for future release

Availability Check for SAP Non ABAP Systems (Convergent Charging, BO Systems, SAP Web Dispatcher, and so on)

These are the relvante Metrics which we had to monitored For Convergent Charging Systems: SAP CC Instance Availability High GC heap usage It would be helpful if Instana could execute Powershell scripts and evaluate the corresponding status of the ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Please implement a way to hide production subscriptions for cloud parking

In most situations, we don't want to park production subscriptions, so would like to hide these for the majority of users. For the infrequent times we want to park production, I would want to see this available for elevated-access users only.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 4 Functionality already exists

Interactive BenchMarking Translation (Japanese)

Interactive BenchMarking is not translated into Japanese. It would be very convenient for Japan customers if it is translated like other products.
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Benchmarking 0 Future consideration

At ALSAC we make extensive use of NetBrain to monitor our Network. It would be great if we could bring that data into Instana to add additional context to incidents.

Including data from the network domain would enable us to see relevant context if we have issues in our infrastructure. If we could achieve this we feel that we could resolve some of our incidents more quickly
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

ALSAC would like to be able to monitor the SalesForce Cloud

We need to proactively monitor the SaleForce Cloud which is used extensively in ALSAC. We would like to be able to observe data such as (but not limited to): Logins and ip addresses related to them Data loads and deletions - unusual activity API A...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Not under consideration