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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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ML: Auto JE Filtering in GL and Cost Pool Mapping Using Some Field Combinations

Some customers face challenges in identifying which journal entries are related to IT spend and in mapping cost pools within the GL, as the granularity of accounts and cost centers is insufficient. With following functionality, many customers coul...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Planned for future release

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

Option to count e.g. number of cloud accounts

We have another KPI to track the growth of cloud accounts or number of projects
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Planned for future release

Utilization metrics not appearing for Azure subscriptions

The Azure util data is not supported currently and hence the issue and we would like to know if you have planed a timeline to enable these for Azure Utilization metrics.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1

Meta data field of 'project_labels' not available for CLDY(CDI) to CT integration

We are able to upload the column named 'project_labels' using the Google Cloud Platform Connector on Datalink Classic. The meta data field however from GCP of 'project_labels' is not available for CLDY(CDI) to CT integration in FDM. Business reaso...
28 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

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

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Under review

Capability to monitor database blockings & wait times in instana

We are unable to monitor databases using Instana, as we don't see options for tracking database blocking, wait times, and similar metrics. Databases: RDS Postgre MSSQL
6 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Able to Create alerts/Incidents from Syslogs ingested for log anomaly detection

Consider exploring the possibility of applying incident policies or rules to create incidents/alerts once syslogs are ingested for log anomaly detection, similar to how we manage alerts. This could expand the functionality beyond just log anomaly ...
15 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review