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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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Log Aggregation

We want to be able to retrieve logs generated on the managed clusters through APIs exposed on the MCM hub. W up to and including pods.
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Future consideration

Monthly Time Period Picker

I had originally reached out via Apptio Support, and it was suggested I bring this as an enhancement request. (Case # 00349544) When we have monthly time period as picker(January, February etc), When we select the random month from the picker, t...
9 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Option to apply resize policies on groups of namespaces

When trying to "cleanup" the whole cluster it is pretty tedious to keep filtering by namespaces. So my workflow using Turbonomic is usually that I check the recommendations on the Turbo homepage to see where the needs for resizing are. I then crea...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 5 Future consideration

Authentication options

Since GitHub has been integrated and used in Instana, we can have GitHub as one of the authentication method in Instana. This process can avoid multiple AD/SSO configurations in tools/applications.
9 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

Support Yocto Linux for IEAM edge device

Add support Yocto Linux 2.5.1 and 2.5.1+ on Intel Atom processor for IEAM edge device prerequisite OS. IEAM edge device prerequisite OS is described below. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSFKVV_4.1/devices/installing/adding_devices.ht...
over 4 years ago in Edge Application Manager 4 Not under consideration

Variance Comparison Between Budget and Forecast

Ability to do variance comparisons between budget and forecast, or forecast to forecast, in order to create waterfall charts 
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

ITP with ADM - Automatically Update Reference Data

@Sheetal Dehadaraya Recently, we did a demo of ADM to the customer A2A. The customer likes the feature "Automatically publish reference data imported from Cost Transparency". A2A would like to have also a feature for "Automatically Update Referenc...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Synthetic monitoring enhanced permission

Viewer permission will be able to view the Synthetic monitoring configuration details that may contain a username/password to login to the application. Request to create enhanced permission or set up additional HBAC permission for this?
9 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Functionality already exists

Additional Topic Metrics for Kafka

Customer monitors Kafka performance based off lag with the topics. Right now we have bytes metrics along with messages in but they need visibility for the Messages Out metric too. Metrics needed: Messages Out Lag (difference in Messages in and out)
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Configuration option for Tracing of SQL query parameters (PostgresQL)

In certain cases, it would be helpful for us to see the query parameters of a query. We would like to have a configuration option to switch tracing on for specific services or even only database entities. E.g. we are having a concurrent access on ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration