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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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AWS Splitting Credit Costs by category

I request that you break down the credits by category (see Description Item) on both the plan and the forcast so that we have the ability to make more accurate predictions. I attach the screenshot of AWS which already natively has this functionali...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Enable custom arguments (e.g. -C) for ud32 and allow running Tuxedo sensor scripts as application user

The current Tuxedo sensor implementation does not support passing custom arguments to ud32 (such as -C <client>), nor does it allow executing shell scripts (e.g. tuxedoShell.sh) as a specific OS-level application user. This causes problems i...
8 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Ability to Add Account Groups to Filter Dropdown in Rightsizing

Currently the filters in Rightsizing contain some Cldy standard dimensions and then all tags and all business dimensions. It would be helpful to also include the Account Groups in the filter dropdown options.

Add email subscription option for Cloudability Optimize Rightsizing Recommendations

Problem:Right now a user can only retrieve rightsizing recommendations relevant to them by going into the Optimize Rightsizing UI, applying relevant filters to narrow it down to infrastructure thei own and seeing if there are any results. This is ...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Create equivalent reporting for Instana based on Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) ITM agents and Z Enterprise agents

ITM and TCR are deprecated so customers who have moved away from ITM to Instana no longer have the reporting functionality
11 days ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Submitted

Frontdoor - Allow multiple Domain Management SSO Configurations to be enabled at one time and have them assigned to specific environments

This would be useful since we could have both our lower IDP environment and prod IDP environment onboarded to test for any SSO configuration changes before applying to prod. It also allows our Jira integration to be enabled much easier. We are hav...
11 days ago in Apptio 0 Submitted

Enable Opentelemetry for SAP and SOAP Nodes

This feature allows the collection of OpenTelemetry-compatible tracing data for SOAP and SAP nodes within IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE). By enabling OpenTelemetry, developers and operations teams can gain deep observability into message flows i...
11 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Enhancements in OpenAPI Documentation

Hi Team, Could we enhance the documentation under infrastructure-monitoring/snapshots/ by listing all the available metrics that can be fetched through the API? Currently, the table does not detail the possible metrics users can query, which makes...
11 days ago in Instana / SRE 0 Submitted

Customers need Effective Rightsizing Cost Metric for both 10 OR 30 days in ABI

So that customers can see in ABI reports the same output as rightsizing UI and utilise the reporting more effectively.
12 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Persistent Volume and Network cost and usage to be properly reflected in the tool

We’re interested in both Persistent Volume and Network cost and usage be properly reflected in the tool. We’re using Container Insights quite a bit now as we’re appreciating the functionality; however, we’re not able to do the comparison and track...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted