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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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More than one subscription in a one Cloud Service Agents

In the documentation there is a issue to use one single agent for each Azure subscription as we are able to create a Reading Service Accounts for the whole Azure Tenant and have many subscrioptions; will it possible to configure an agent in order ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Data Insight - Visualization of HTTP/S Routes - Reporting

Wanted to know if there was a way to display the traceroute that the HTTP poller uses in SevOne NMS, and if it can be displayed in a widget within DI. The idea is that we would be able to monitor the routes of 443 traffic internal to their geoloca...
almost 2 years ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Add User and Domain to Explore Area of Workload Designer.

Add User and Domain objects to the Explore Area in the Workload Designer. When opening the TWSd DWC Workload Design in v10.1, the Explore area displays boxes for objects listing how many there are of each object. You can easily click on any one of...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Getting Monitoring Issues via Instana API

The customer can get event types such as incident, issue, change using Instana API, but they cannot get monitoring issues which are very important for them. Due to these monitoring issues, the monitoring done by Instana on technologies in producti...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Functionality already exists

Add Targets from IT Planning to Apptio BI Reporting

We want to see cost center vs. targets available in the BI tool. Often, our forecast are greater than our annual target. We want to be able to report on risk on a full year basis (when will the target be fully consumed - OPEX & CAPEX). Adding ...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Variance Analysis between Forecast & Actuals at a line item level

1.Users want to see Variance Analysis between Forecast & Actuals at a line item level. Which means they want to see what lines in General Ledger are contributing to actuals vs what lines in forecast were used to compare. 2. We need invoice lin...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Submit button visible to IT Planning Expenses tab mainscreen

Submit button in IT Planning Expenses tab should be visible in mainscreen for users. Now it is hidden under three dot button where it is hard to find (screenshot).
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

retrieve more than 5 infrastructure metrics from API

We want to retrieve infrastructure metrics through API "//api/infrastructure-monitoring/metrics", but it's result only has 5 metrics. It must request api many times if we want to retrieve whole metrics of infrastructure. So, I suggest to this api ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 1 Future consideration

Add WebSphere (WAS) information to Custom Service Rules

Hello, Can you please add WebSphere (WAS) information like Server Name, Node Name and Cell Name to the list of tags in Custom Service Rules ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-services#create-a-custom-ser...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Planned for future release

Add Terraform Support for zCentric Agent and DWC

Simplify configuration and setup of Zcentric Agents and DWC on the Cloud
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration