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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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Currency conversion in Model objects

Currently, currency conversion is applied only in reports to reflect the user's preferred currency. The customer has requested that currency conversion also be integrated into the model objects.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

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...
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...
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...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Allow a way for app owners to see pending changes without Turbonomic access

Overwhelmingly, app owners want to know what's changing on their VMs (rightfully). Allowing them to see some sort of public dashboard of pending actions would help us greatly instead of either having to give all of them access or checking for the ...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Support for ActiveMQ Artemis version up to 2.36.x

Hi team, Our customer MinFin from Belgium reported that they aren't able to monitor their ActiveMQ Artemis because their version is not supported, we support until 2.6.x Can you please add support up till latest version at the time of writing this...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

In the "Oracle RAC" configuration, we would like to be able to monitor without using "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname."

Instana's monitoring of "Oracle RAC" only supports "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname." Therefore, we would like to be able to monitor in the "Oracle RAC" configuration without using "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname." There are "Oracle RAC" configurations w...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Support for IBM DataStage

Hi team, While searching Instana documentation I couldn't find IBM DataStage, this means is not supported and we need to be able to monitor this technology: https://www.ibm.com/products/datastage Can we add support for it like other IBM products? ...
10 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 1 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
2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Job Management Plugin needs to be able to rerun jobs in different Streams

For a very simple process that needs to rerun a job in the same stream this works fine. But the use of this would more likely be handled by a simple job rerun setting or maybe a recovery job. To make this far more useful the plugin should also be ...
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration