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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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Dashboards: Add the setting to Hide Empty Lanes for list widgets

It's only possible to hide empty lanes if you open the full screen version of the view. It would be useful to have this setting controlled on the widget level.
10 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Dashboard: Add a widget option with a text table

It's possible to add a harcoded table to the text widget, however, in order to add/remove row a column, you need to hardcode another table. It would be useful to have the option of the ready table where you can add the text alongside with the text...
10 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Allow users to change the pre-defined severity of a built-in event and allow to change the related metric thresholds

There is a bunch of built-in events, but in some cases users won't agree with the severity level of the events or the selected metric thresholds. Please allow users to change these in built-in events. Seems like something that should have been pos...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Connectivity into Apptio via AWS

Hi I know Apptio is standalone application, and it could be possibly hosted anywhere. Now it's hosted on AWS. I work in large organization, and we are also using AWS, which is trusted partner for us. It makes it much easier from data governanc...
10 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

New LWA Job Executor to run gcloud run jobs using a bearer token from GCP

To enable the use of gcloud run in the bank and run workloads on the fly without the need for a full LWA in the cloud environment
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide the ability to merge dissimilar resources.

Sometime various observers, integration or data sources create too many resources that have limited value and may be more suitable as properties of another resource. Often these resources are of a different classification (eg virtual server and CP...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Extend Impact JMS integration capabilities to receive JMS message including "JMS message header, properties and payload"

A full JMS message consists of the following data: - JMS message header - JMS message properties - JMS message payload The current Impact JMS DSA and function "ReceiveJMSMessage" only receives the JMS message payload. However, the JMS header and p...
about 1 month ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Ability to get the volume of purchased licences through Instana API

Hello, Currently, I' m able to get the number of active apmhost and infrahost per day with the api endpoint : /api/instana/usage/hosts/{day}/{month}/{year} ############# Usage : https://xxxxxxxxxxx.instana.io ############# [{'time': 1724544000000,...
4 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Future consideration

ITP - Contracts tab - Extension adjustment is only calculated once even for multi-year contracts

Extension adjustment for contracts is only calculated once. So if the original price is 100 euros and extension is +3% it will be 103 euros for all the following years instead of compounding annually.There needs to be an ability to compound the in...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Instana UI : Display monitored Service names in host page

We need to monitor windows services but on host page can only see pid & process names. Since these services are all using same process, we cannot really know which service is what. Displaying actual service name and description on host page (e...
2 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Submitted