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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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Dynamic maps constrained by device and object groups.

I'd like to be able to create a map, for example 'MPLS Core' and configure the map to show all 'ethernetcsmacd' links only between nodes in X,Y,Z device groups. or to specify only links in a given object group. I'd like the map to update dynamical...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

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

Filtering options in custom dashboards

Add live filter options in customer dashboard. Say you have an custom dashboard for one specific application to see the overview. But then you want to filter in that dashboard for a specific user, server etc. Just like you have filter options in A...
3 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

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

On IBM AIX, Instana should not count filecache (completely) as "used_memory"

AIX by default uses available memory as filecache (between limits set by parameters minperm% and maxperm%), usually up to 90% of the total memory size. When the applications use only a small portion of available memory, the remainder (or large par...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM Power 2 Future consideration

Target health check “TEST button”

Hi Team :-) In Legacy PMC product we have a TEST button which can check the health of the Target. I think it would be amazing to have the same in Turbonomic Here below how it works: After you run TEST, and let's say, there is any issue with List r...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 3 Future consideration

Rightsizing ROI with a group of resources

in our finops governance, we assign optimization actions to our engineering teams. As a Finops lead, I would like to be able to assign a set of recommendations for an application (through the TAG value), not per resource type (EC2, RDS, EBS etc). ...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 1 Future consideration

Keep Apptio Gov Help Up To Date with Commercial

The gov version of Apptio Help seems to not get updated as often as Commercial. According to gov help on 2/10/25 (https://help-gov.apptio.com/cloudability/whats-new.htm), the last update to Cloudability was on September 30, 2024.
16 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 1 Planned for future release

Ability to Star Reports I Don't Own

I would like to be able to star an out of the box report without having to make a copy of it. This would be helpful in managing the list of reports and allow me to go to the Starred reports for the ones that I'm interested in.
16 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Ability to search/filter in a table widget on Dashboard

Currently if you have a long list of items in a table widget, there is no way to search or filter so you have to scroll through the entire list to find what you are looking for. Could we have the same ability to filter a table, as we do in Apptio ...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted