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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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Enable users to change the data reference period (currently less than 90 days) to any days up to 1 year at minimum, upon generating Actions.

Original Request from the customer.------------------------- Enable users to change the data reference period (currently less than 90 days) to any days up to 1 year at minimum, upon generating Actions. Question by IBM team.------------------------...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Not under consideration

Would like to see subfolders in TBM Studio

Having subfolders to organize documents would be helpful because with only one layer the amount of documents makes it hard to sort through and organize.
30 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Replace VMware tools shutdown command with SevOne shutdown command for proper shutdown

All VMware customers, would mean one triggered from the vCenter interface will then properly shutdown the machine. /etc/vmware-tools/poweroff-vm-default/etc/vmware-tools/restart-vm-default
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

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

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 2 months 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 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1

Agent Installation - Can provide an option to over-write the default `/tmp/.instana` folder PATH location to a path of the customers choice

While enabling Java Virtual threads Customer lost tracing of event calls. Further debugging with Instana support team, they found that the issue is that Instana is losing its temporary files staged in `/tmp/.instana/*` folder. As per Instana suppo...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s

Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s. We should ability to setup alert and dashboards.
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

AI for future migration/lift/shift.

I am an IBM customer involved in a years long effort to lift and shift out of now unsupported IIB to ACE. Lots of manual stare/compare. Need to apply AI tactically to be able to do first cut of that in next thing past ACE so I dont have to do this...
16 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Enhance Cloudability Dashboarding/Reporting with Multi-View Email Notifications

Enhance Cloudability's reporting capabilities to allow users to configure email notifications for multiple views simultaneously. This could involve: Multi-view emails subscriptions - Allow users to configure/receive emails for each view user is pa...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted