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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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Editable table: show primary key in the history of an editable table

without showing the primary key in the history of the editable table, it is unclear for which line the change has been done
29 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Under review

Separate editable tables when setting up a new branch

When creating a new branch, the editable tables should be separated instantaneously to avoid any data leakage from the Trunk. If this doesn't happen, changes in the editable tables in the Trunk could change data in the Branch and lead to inconsist...
29 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Under review

Allow more flexibility in Instana-agent HelmChart

Hi IBM-Instana team, We use the instana-agent to monitor our services which are running in an air-gapped environment. We have a fully automated pipeline for mirroring images and HelmChart and for wrapping the HelmChart with our custom configuratio...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Future consideration

Rich text in text widget

It would enhance the user experience in BI text widgets if hyperlinks and potentially more formatting options could be added. I do have text widgets with URL's right now but people have to select the text to navigate.
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Show host to host connections in Topology Resource groups

Currently there is a limitation of showing host to host connection from topology resource goups, but with the alerts correlation we are saying the resource group is showing the events getting correlated based on topology, but in the group view all...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Custom events to support dynamic macros

Today, when we create custom event, we specify the title and description along with the event trigger criteria. Based on the trigger, event with the given title is created. And we see multiple events with same title, based on how many such events ...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Functionality already exists

Add support to TADDM to discover RHEL v.9.4 targets

RHEL 9.4 was released 4/30/24 and is already being deployed in our organization. Full support for RHEL 9.4 as target OS for TADDM is still not available as of 7.3.0.11 and documentation only shows support up to RHEL 9.3.

Display hot add memory and cpu information on Entity Information widget

Provide visibility on whether a VM has hot add enabled for CPU and MEM from the entity detail
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Host Agent sensor needs the ability to monitor files and directories

Host Agent sensor needs the ability to monitor files and directories. Want capabilities that are similar to ITM v6. Customers use this capability to indicate whether their applications are performing properly. For example, if there are too many fi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1

Show Configuration Changes in Anomaly Reports

Add a feature to track changes in system configurations and show them in anomaly reports. This can work by pulling data about configuration changes (like from billing systems or logs) and marking the dates of those changes in the reports. This way...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Needs more information