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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 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

Bringing the 'Invoice Unit' field values from AWS CUR into Cloudability

AWS added a new field ('Invoice Unit') in December 2024. This information is in the CUR. This field value does not come into Cloudy through current configuration. The client says that this is a critical field that they want to report on to their e...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Submitted

Email subscription on a report should report data even if the data source is not part of your default view

When a user in Cloudability subscribes to a report in order to receive the report on email, the result in the email report will return 0 if the data source (for example account name) is not a part of the users default view. Meaning, that if a user...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Complex search/filters support for NULL query support in data layer

As part of SW release 4.9 there was support for advance/complex filtering filter in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cloud-pak-aiops/4.9.1?topic=alerts-searching-filtering and the advanced filter syntax in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-p...
15 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Use IBM clickhouse with AWS S3 Service

We would like use AWS S3 Service with Instana clickhouse for warm/cold data to improve cost effectiveness
15 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

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
29 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...
29 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Submitted