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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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Support for Fujitsu Symfoware JDBC Driver

We use Fujitsu Symfoware database on mission critical system. This is one of the core component in the system. Could you add the support for this database?
1 day ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Add 'Service name' dimension in cloudability Views

At present I can only use the following 3 core dimensions when creating a view: -Account Id -Account Name -Vendor Could we please add a dimension of 'Service name' so that we can create Service Level views.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Views 1 Planned for future release

Enhance Instana or Instana agents capability to cache data, during Instana backend upgrade or Agent disconnection

Hello Team, I am recreating this request as we had discussion with backend team ( Jeison) to look into this idea. we are reaching out to request an enhancement to improve data retention capabilities during Instana backend infrastructure upgrades. ...
1 day ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Additional sanitization for Webhooks

Certain SevOne json payloads are affecting service now webhooks and can't be parsed properly if they contain special characters (such as : ). Request to further sanitize our webhook payloads in a more compatable format that service now can accept.
1 day ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Submitted

Adding the capacity to install new plugins/drivers for NAPALM

Currently the NAPALM module only supports what is the default for few vendors (Cisco mainly). But there are more networking brands and models requiring RIA integration as well. Example: Fortinet. It is not supported out of the box, but there are p...
1 day ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review

Please add the effective cost in the downloaded file for executed actions (widget)

We are seeing the effective cost in the UI, however when the report / details are downloaded to in excel format, it contains the on-demand cost rather than the effective cost.
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

ServiceNow Mapping Update

We are looking to have a fully customizable mapping panel for the ServiceNow integration. Currently, there are a few fields that are mapped outside of the integration field, so we have no control over them. We would like this mapping field to be s...
1 day ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Edit Visualization: drag and drop dimensions and metric

We often use the Alternative Dimentions and Alternative Metrics in the Apptio BI dashboards to allow our users with read-only access to add/hide dimensions. It would be great to have a drag and drop feature to move dimensions between Dimensions an...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

loading the base-domain URL should forward the user to the tenant-unit.baseDomain URL for login

We learned from working on the Case "TS019337924 Different login experience", that the following behaviour is the status-quo for k3s selfhosted Instana ( 3.291.396-0): The URL https://basedomain.de (login fails in your env) is valid just after a f...
2 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Vendor agnostic Oauth External Login Providers

This Idea would provide administrators the ability to configure a vendor agnostic external login provider. Admins will have full configuration of their Oauth beyond the existing options to include and are not limited to: Secrets, Client_IDs, Passk...
2 days ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 0 Submitted