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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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VVOL volumes are not providing data to Turbonomic. So the data cannot be stitched.

A customer with a vcenter target utilizing Pure Storage is missing storage capacity and usage information (storage access IOPS / latency) in Turbo for some VMs, but are getting those metrics for other VMs discovered from the same vCenter target , ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Under review

Additional Reserved Instance Recommendations - Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Only the compute costs are included with a reservation. A reservation doesn't cover software, networking, or storage charges associated with the PostgreSQL Database servers. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 0 Submitted

Loop prevention between JOBSTREAMs in the current plan on IWS MDM

Loop prevention between JOBSTREAMs in the current plan on IWS MDM The subject of the development request concerns the detection of loops on the current plan of IWS MDM Linux in the Forcast process and the blocking of the calculation of the curr...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Instana agent to not monitor ALL Kubernetes "cluster" namespaces - ability to monitor only specific namespaces within a single cluster

Customer has all environments i.e. dev, uat, prod within the same cluster in Kubernetes. Now since Instana agent has been installed at the cluster level, it has picked up all the included nodes and namespaces This has resulted in increase of no. o...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

Bringing network topology onto ASM GIS map

The customer is running AIOPS 1.6.12 and ASM 1.1.21. We have the GIS map with aggregated data points on the GIS map representing vertices with GIS Lat/Long data. They also have topology based UI with vertices and edges but no capability to bring G...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Ability to pass details on service when an alert is triggered for custom events/built-in events

Need ability to pass details on service when an alert is triggered for custom events/built-in events. Required format - subject line+ service name.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Future consideration

Limiting Tables to Top X Amount of Rows

Hi Team, I had originally reached out via Apptio Community, and it was suggested I bring this as an enhancement request: https://community.apptio.com/question/limiting-tables-to-top-x-amount-of-rows#1e0db23b-4549-4c63-a2a0-018e2f23f44f We ...
10 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

CP4AIOps Connections - warning when creating Connections with invalid names

When creating a Connection in CP4AIOps (to Instana), you can create this Connection using characters like "_" with no warning. However, the Connection fails later on because of these illegal characters. It would be better if a warning appears when...
10 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard

Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard, From the attached screenshot, you can observe it does not have metric for memory and cpu usage of a deployment, service, daemonset. Please add it to all avai...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

Application Perspective creation improvements

When creating/updating an AP following improvements are suggested: - A "notes" field writing in for which purpose this AP was created- A "tag" field in which tags can be entered manually which can be used in the AP overview to group by.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration