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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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Provision of Instana backend api function endpoint to retrieve agent sensor versions

I would be very useful to have an api endpoint in instana backend that delivered agent sensor versions.
3 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Apptio Views manually managed. Provide the ability to link Views to roles or their Active Directory Groups.

We require Views to be linked to AD roles so that we can manage the cost data privileges that our users hold in the Apptio suite without having to do as we are currently, where for example a user will get a role 'user' or 'admin' and we have to ex...
3 days ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Group synthetic tests for better overview and navigation

It would be nice to create groups and assign tests to one or multiple groups to make it easier to find tests for team members or stakeholders of a certain test topic.
3 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Missing node/component should be expressed for a longer term in the infrastructure map for traditional systems

In the infrastructure map, when the node or component is down ( metric is not sent to the backend ), that node/component is not displayed in the Infrastructure map anymore. This is a good design for cloud native systems, each container lifecycle i...
8 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Default API URL for reports should include all rows of data instead of only displayed rows

When copying API URLs, currently the default is to copy only the displayed rows (first page) of the report data when the Component Information URL is copied. "&rowCount=1000000000" must be added on to include the entire report. It would be mor...
23 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Plot data using variable as reference on Analytics

To make the charts (all or individual) plot data based on a variable (like POD for instance). This way, when a dashboard is created for a specific monitoring objective it would be easy to change the data by changing the variable the data is refere...
10 days ago in Instana 1 Submitted

Provide the Password and/or the Client Credentials Grant Types for the ServiceNow Connectors

The current OAuth 2.0 implementation for the ServiceNow Connectors in Datalink use the authorization grant type which requires an interactive login when the refresh token expires. This means that a user has to physically login when the refresh tok...
7 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Visualization of the top 5% (the part excluded in the case of 95pt)

I would like you to visualize the parts that are excluded in the case of 95pt (top 5%). This is to see the load conditions that are excluded from the optimization action considerations.I would like to use it as a reference for changes between 95pt...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Delete actions, such as unnecessary snapshots and virtual NICs

I would like you to present actions to reduce waste other than VMs, Volumes, and DBs. I want to centrally manage wasted resources with Turbonomic.
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Improved Support for Lightweight Kubernetes Distributions

As Kubernetes adoption continues to grow, many developers and organizations are leveraging lightweight Kubernetes distributions like MicroK8s, Minikube, and Kind for development, testing, and smaller-scale production deployments. However, the curr...
13 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted