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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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Adding row count metrics to database query monitoring

By enabling database administrators to identify usage patterns and understand user interactions, it allows for optimization of inefficient queries that return a large number of records, leading to improved response times. This metric needs to be a...
7 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 1 Future consideration

Generate a file output without a header row on the csv file

This would be useful for our automation of our chargeback process. This automation runs from Cloudability through SFTP to our Nationwide Finance system and the system can not accept a file with a header row.
11 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Add API calls to Data Insight or a way to modify user roles and permissions programatically

The NMS has extensive and exhaustive user management tools using SOA. There is no such counterpart to Data Insight, which also has its own set of access, roles, permissions and lists to manage in production environments as the User Role or Permiss...
12 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Able to query the Instana Events in Grafana

Hi team, There has been a need to have Instana Events in Grafana, the same way as we do right now in the Custom Dashboards, basically, be able to query Critical/Warning and present them in a Grafana widget. Thank you.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Add a new column with sharing URL inside downloaded csv file of Turbo recommendations

Requests to include a column that includes the sharing URL for each recommendation.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

OMNIbus SNMP Probe should support SNMPv3 SHA512 authentication type

Security is important for every customer and they want to use strong encryption modes. The SNMP probe is based on net-snmp 5.8 which supports SHA-512: http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/Strong_Authentication_or_Encryption Question: Authenticat...
8 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Monitor Processes that are in zombie State

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-os-process#process-abnormal-termination Instana does Monitor Process Abnormal Termination, but does not seams to monitor processes that are in zombie sta...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Monitoring file or directory - Recursive, Counting only files

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-file Currently the probe counts the number of files in a specified folder . If there is a folder within the said folder , its being counted as a file The...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration

ITP: Need bulk upload ability to input Targets in a Plan

Users need ability to bulk upload Targets in ITP rather than having to enter manually, especially in the case of Cost Center level targets. Our organization has hundreds of Cost Centers that require a target.
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

and or statements in filter

When creating filters in Apptio BI you are unable to create a combination of and en or statements. Hence you need to create several statements to achieve this. As an example i have this statement below. It would me much more efficient if we can ne...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration