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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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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

Azure Savings Plans Utilization Tracking

I want to be able to 1) list Azure Savings Plan commitments, followed by 2) tracking the utilization of the specific Azure Savings Plan such as 100%, 95%, etc. and 3) display the workloads that are consuming from the savings plan.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Expand Azure reservation planning to additional Azure resource types supporting Azure reserved instances

Currently Turbonomic only supports planning reservation instances for VMs in Azure. Microsoft provides numerous resource types to purchase reserved instances. I want to make purchases driven on analytics provided by Turbonomic to drive ROI, howeve...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration

IWS : -noremove option of JnextPlan should not remove cancelled job streams

The goal of the -noremove option is to keep the plan "as is" (Successful job streams are not removed). However, cancelled job streams are removed during the replan operation.
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow installation and patching via sudo rule instead of requiring actual root access

Our security teams do not like providing us access to root to perform installations and patching activities. Their stated preference is that we use sudo rules. Having to coordinate the activity with the Linux admins means double the human resource...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Agent liveness check

While Instana Agent offers a health endpoint, this endpoint is only available on the localhost we are seeking a reliable way of validating that the agent is running by ie polling a heartbeat of liveness check without the need for another monitorin...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Functionality already exists

24 hour (daily) granularity on long term views

When looking at a few weeks worth of data in Instana granularity is set to 12 hours.When having a daily seasonality in traffic - which I assume most Instana users have to some extend - this means that data like the number of calls cannot be easily...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 5 Future consideration

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

Change log for Agent/Sensor Updates

It's currently hard to learn which changes an agent update did bring. Since there is no dedicated changelog, the only way to learn about version updates is to look at the agent log and compare sensor/agent versions before and after the "Performing...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration