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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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Allow Customization of Long-Term Trace Retention Policies in Instana On-Prem

We are currently running IBM Instana in an on-premises environment and have encountered limitations with trace retention configuration. According to the official documentation, only the short-term trace retention policy is configurable. However, o...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Ability to Import/export functionality for Account Groups (Organize) to update them in bulk

With over 400+ account groups in Cldy env, it is difficult to identify which Account groups are tagged with the required group values and which are not. Tried the same using API but not very helpful. The idea here is to have an Export option - whi...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Apptio BI Report/dashboard to be used as the default Landing page for Cloudability

Hi team, As the customer is extensively using Apptio BI reports , the idea is to have a BI report as a default landing page instead of Cldy Dashboards. The customer team is working on shifting (to) and enabling the BI feature to wider teams and ha...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Under review

Can French be included on application language offering ?

Customer might like to have French added on available application lenguages
about 1 month ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review

Scoped Administrative Permissions

Administrative privledges that can be scoped the same way that parker or advisor roles can be scoped.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Under review

When comes to Dashboard / Reports you need to have an option to choose /pull previous days info or data for Today / This Week / Month / Year

When you select a dashboard / report to view the cost or compare the cost for duration of Today / This Week / This Month / This Year, you will never get a correct result. This is because the day is still not ended and CUR file sync is also happeni...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1

Standardize the position and behavior of the search bar across all views by keeping it consistently on the left and fully clickable, improving usability and alignment with common UI patterns.

This change reduces user confusion and friction by making the search functionality predictable, discoverable, and easy to interact with across the entire platform. Consistency in UI placement supports faster navigation, reduces misclicks, and alig...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Not under consideration

Add a "PersistentVolumes" column to the Kubernetes Clusters view for quicker visibility and access to PV details and metrics

This enhancement would significantly improve observability and troubleshooting by making PersistentVolumes (PVs) immediately visible at the cluster level. Currently, users have to dig through multiple views to find storage-related information. Sur...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Instana run under a non-root after installation (Standard Edition)

Customer is expecting that all Instana processes should run under a non-root user after issuing stanctl up command. We were advice (by an Instana site reliability engineer) to do the following and if would solve the problem but it did not: copy /r...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Pin the global Views box on reports

Other controls, such as global filters, are pinned so that they remain on the top of the screen as the user scrolls through the dashboard. Doing the same with Views would allow the customer to quickly see if there are any restrictive views which m...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review