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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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support for template variables

support for template variables in grafana
over 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Multiple Compensation Adjustment % depending on time period

Currently, adjustment % on Labor tab is applicable to a single adjustment date.  We have different COLA adjustment rates in different years (X% in 2023, Y% in 2024).  As a result, as we've moved to planning the next two years, our comp c...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Host sensor needs to be able to monitor NIC status

Customers need to understand the status of their NICs to ensure that their networking is functioning properly. Currently, the Instana Host Agent only collects the performance metrics of the NICs and not the satus.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Built-in Event: Abnormal termination correlation event with deployment markers

Kubernetes is gracefully terminating the resources. In new releases, our resources will be replaced with new ones. Kubernetes sends SIGTERM signal to pods.This signal lets the containers know they will be shut down soon. This behaviour causes lots...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

WYSIWYG > Markdown option

Our team uses Markdown as opposed to WYSIWGY option, as many cards involve examples tables and using WYSIWYG is a PITA to add tables to test cases. If a card originally authored as Markdown is edited once by someone using WYSIWYG there is no opti...
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Set the `release` label for the `kube_pod_container_status_ready` metric (and any others that have it defined) to the value of the `release` label of the pod.

I'm working on some Grafana dashboards for monitoring MCM. We'd like to be able to filter based on the pod label named release . I notice in the Prometheus kube_pod_container_status_ready metric there is a release label. It looks like that may als...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Create a new "Search ASM" widget for ASM topology search in DASH which should be case insensitive and searches using "NodeClickedOn" event and able to search node name with exact match

Create a new "Search ASM" widget for ASM topology search in DASH which should be case insensitive and searches using "NodeClickedOn" subscribed event and able to search node name with exact match.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Functionality already exists

Datalink (New) "Test Table" Button Behavior and Placement in Apptio Connector

The current behavior and placement of the "Test Table" button implies that you should be able to simply provide a source API and click the link to run a valid test. The link is disabled at first. But as soon as you provide a URL, the link becomes ...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Under review

Report with the utilization graphs for a group of VMs

I’d like the ability to have Turbo generate a report with the usage graphs for a group of VMs. I must get App Owner signoff for server RightSizing, and this data is demanded frequently to justify Turbo’s recommendations. I’d like to be able to spe...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 7 Future consideration

DWC: enhance graphical features for successors/pre-decessors

In DWC we have graphical capabilities to present pre-decessors and successors for IWS applications. The graphical view makes it much easier to get the proper insight in the structure of the applications.However, the graphical view for successors i...
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration