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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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We want to restrict volume changes to ONLY performance and not efficiency.

The customer has a DR environment with lots of volumes. Turbo is recommending downsizes that the customer doesn't want. Right now Turbo policy has an option Prefer Savings Over Reversibility. But unlike VM policy we can't restrict changes to just ...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Needs more information

New pipeline step for Sort

Would like to have a new step in the transform pipeline which allows us to select a column and sort it by value (if numerical field) or alphabetically (if text field). Use Case 1 Generally when admin are going through tables and are investigatin...
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Configuration of Application Perspective spanning over multiple custom tag filter criteria in End-to-End view

Configuration of Application Perspective spanning over multiple custom tag filter criteria in End-to-End view We need urgently a way to build application perspective views based on discrete call tags that arise at various points in service hierarc...
3 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Under review

Adding additional filter to Analytics Infrastructure view

We have two cassandra clusters with the same name (apm_cassandra) but in different openshift clusters. Because the cluster name is the same, I'm unable to filter out the specific one I'm interested in under Analyze Infrastructure -> Cassandra C...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Monitoring the number of Cassandra Tombstones

We have recently found that Cassandra (a component of CNEA/ASM) performance is degraded due to large number of Tombstones. However, we can only see the high number of tombstones in pod logs but not a metric we can monitor. If we can montior the co...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Cloudability for SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)

SAP Business Technology Platform is an innovation platform optimised for SAP applications in the cloud and a PaaS cloud computing service offered by SAP.More than 16,000 cloud customers are using BTP, and due to the Transformation to S/4HANA, more...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Supergroup parent should Inherit of Journals from merger groups' parent event

Currently, when a supergroup is created, it doesn't have journal from the merged group's parent events. Lots of customers populate custom fields of parent events based on probable cause or first event in the groups. In absence of complete informat...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Huawei U2000 Corba Probe should be able to connect to irp reference of EMS Zain 1.2.0

When using the Huawei_u2000_3gpp_corba Probe to connect to a Zain v1.2.0 Huawei-based EMS host, the following error is generated: Error: E-JPR-000-000: Failed to connect; ProbeException: Error connecting to EMS IRP : Failed to get IRP reference : ...
26 days ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

GCP Cost not tally if not filter by Invoice Date/ID

GCP Cost numbers are not tally. Can't do monthly view as number will never be correct with GCP Native Billing
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Documentation for Instana data retention policy

Hello Team, While the current documentation mentions a 7-day retention period for full granularity and the use of approximate data thereafter, there is no detailed explanation about which metrics are subject to random sampling or data approxima...
3 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review