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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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Better Overview of Hybrid environment managed by Turbonomic

Better breakdown of larger supply chain and easy to get VMware, Cloud, Containers segregated information
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
7 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

Enable host availability percentage (% Uptime) for a given time period

Calculating the host uptime percentage is essential, as it provides a simple yet critical metric that reflects how long a server has been available compared to the total monitoring period. This measurement is vital for assessing the reliability of...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Automatically reconfigure host to add/remove licensed hosts for Turbonomic with Flexera integration

As a user of the Turbonomic integration with Flexera, I would like my host groups managed/automated in such a way that i do not have to create and update them, and when there is demand for additional licensed hosts Turbonomic will be able to recon...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

Align the Azure region names in Cloudability with the actual Azure region names

As can be seen in the attachment, Azure provide two region name standards via the API; PricesExtract.Items.armRegionName which is currently used as the second part of the region name in cloudability, and PricesExtract.Items.location which currentl...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Submitted

Add support for X.509 certificate-based authentication in the MariaDB sensor for Instana.

Currently, the Instana MariaDB sensor does not support SSL or X.509 certificate-based authentication. Our customer(BWI) uses X.509 authentication for all database access, and despite following the documented configuration steps, the sensor fails t...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

LDAP multiple domains authentication

In current version Instana allow to configure only one LDAP connection.If domains are in tree in theory it should work:For example:aaa.com (points to first domain controller)Domain 1: xzy.aaa.com (first domain controller)Domain 2: 123.aaa.comDomai...
7 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

feature Budgets & Forecasting - remove Taxes on "Actual Cost"

When we forecasting, the actual cost brings taxes influencing all the cost values and forecasting itself. Our proposal is to remove taxes from this exercise NOTE: Already solved with business mapping and views
28 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

View Allocations Drivers Over a Period of Time

When adding Drivers to a column or line chart, and bringing in historical time periods, Apptio does not support the use of the Driver field. This would be very useful for comparing the cost of different allocations over a period of time. In our us...
28 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Submitted

Add Cloudability Rightsizing ROI endpoint data to Apptio BI for reporting

The reporting on the Cloudability ROI screen is very primitive and doesn't allow for each reporting of rightsizing tickets and savings. Please add the dataset to Apptio BI so it can be integrated with standard user reporting.
28 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Under review