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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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Proper Version Control of Scheduling Objects

Currently, the version control of scheduling objects is directly tied to the audit logs. This means that if you modify an object older than the value set in the global option auditHistory (default is 400 days), you lose the ability to see what was...
10 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Trigger an email to remind customers that their Single Sign On (SSO) Certificate needs to be refreshed within Frontdoor.

Apptio SSO Certificates are now refreshed by the Customer, self served via Domain Management within Access Administration on Frontdoor. This refresh needs to take place annually and if not completed in time the customers end users will no longer b...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Other 1 Submitted

Continuous display of Cassandra Nodes data after Cassandra restart

We notice that when viewing the cassandra node where the underlying pod has been restarted, it doesn't display the data continuously even though the node is the same (i.e. same name). If I select the time before restart, I cannot adjust the time t...
3 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Report exports should show business mapping names as column headers rather than reference IDs

When a business mapping field is used as a dimension in a report, the mapping name shown in the UI does not get passed through the exported report. Instead the column name would be something like 'category1'. This is really annoying and potentiall...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

UI group info for users

It would be helpful for users to be able to see which groups he is a member of. When using SSO and group mapping, in order to troubleshoot issues this is very helpful. But at the moment nothing can be seen by regular users about their groups. For ...
3 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Pareto chart - Cost Transparency

The Pareto chart is one of the most popular charts, as it allows users to quickly grasp the rate of the top X at a glance. This will enable TMBO to leverage Apptio for C-level reporting.
16 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Session Starts asociation with UserID in Mobile

Currently, in Mobile, Instana is not associating the UserID with beacons generated before the user logs in. This causes the first "Session Start" of a session to lack the linked UserID, affecting user count metrics and the accuracy of user trackin...
19 days ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Under review

Actions for Cloud SQL on GCP

Hello friends. A client migrated part of their applications from Azure to GCP. After migration, the client applied a series of cost-saving actions, but they missed actions for PaaS databases on GCP, actions that they had on Azure. My suggestion/re...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

WAS Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Enterprise Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application Status.
28 days ago in Instana / WAS 0 Submitted

Lifecycle management for unattached disks

Introduce a lifecycle management process for unattached disks to optimize storage efficiency. This includes: Automated Tiering: Move unattached disks from hot to cold tier based on usage and detached status (detached >= 45 days) Analytics/Reass...
17 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted