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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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disable the field mandatoy to both schulde

good day to safe the charge of cloud we need turn off the virtual machine or RDS instance, however the task request both schedules, like idea i considered that the task no must be selet both schedules, i know other providers that have it function ...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Number widget comparison indicators need better visibility

Dashboard Enhancement request.... Please change the white-on-light grey text within number widgets with a comparison to be more readable (darker background, larger % number, outline of text....). Screenshots of these widgets do not emphasize the d...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

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...
1 day ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

When creating a network merge policy there should be a second field to display the data center name

When creating a network merge policy there should be a second field to display the data center name in the case that the same network name exists in two different data centers. Under the current design, if the same network exists in two different ...
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Provide more details on the Apptio help center

Rightsizing in Cloudability (apptio.com) Currently the apptio help center doesn't include a comprehensive explaination on idle resource, such as the how to define S3 idle percentage, which will affect the user experience.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Instana built-in health metrics

Instana backend provide built-in dashboard panels showing basic health metrics e.g. agent connection status, data delivery etc., backend data ingress and data ingestion status e.g. infrastructure, eum, events, user and apm
1 day ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Get uptime report from Applications on Instana

We have configured Instana to monitor our applications and we would like to report on performance of the application i.e. CPU utilization memory, Disk IO and the overal uptime for the application, how can we get such a report from Instana or the A...
1 day ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Plan line items with error to be identified

As a plan editor and plan approver, I'd like to able to see all plan line items with an exclamation mark at the top of the list so that I can easily identify and review any errors present in the plan. When a filter is not applied, it becomes chall...
1 day ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Allow Custom Report Collections in Vendor Insights

We are building some custom reports in the Vendor Insights Project, that need to be added as new Report Collections in Vendor Insights. Currently, Vendor Insights project doesn't allow us to create/add custom named Report Collections to it. It wil...
1 day ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Incorporate variance analysis into an inline plan/forecast activity

In our business process, I would like to open a forecast or plan, and based on changes made by the Cost Centre Owner, variance driver capture is triggered/becomes mandatory based on the changes made going outside a set tolerance. The basics of the...
1 day ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

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