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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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Read Only Users

A Read-Only user, similar to the Observer user type in TargetProcess.The key difference here, is the Read Only user only has access to data, where they are given access to.Preferably, this becomes a User Type, making a touchless setup possible for...
4 days ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Submitted

Bug reports are not publicly available and it is not possible to determine if the trouble that is occurring is known.

Bug reports are not publicly available and it is not possible to determine if the trouble that is occurring is known. Some fixed bugs are listed in the release notes and github update comments, but unfixed and in-progress bugs are only shared with...
4 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Add information for K8s/OCPs to the release notes in the Instana documentation

We are very pleased to see the release notes for Instana Agent/Sensor/Tracer being added.However, users of Instana with K8s/OCPs should also gather the following information. These can currently only be obtained from the individual githubs. YAML h...
5 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Maintain Identity of Stateful Workloads Running on Spot Instances

As a Turbonomic User, Cloud Engineer and FinOps Practitioner I want to maintain the identity of stateful workloads currently managed by Spot.io so that when a "recycle" occurs in Spot.io and the disk is detached and reattached to a new compute ins...
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Discover Spot Rates

As a Turbonomic User and Data Engineer I want to see the billing rate for Spot instances, and pull that data via the Turbo API for custom reports. Currently, if the billing type = bidding, the billing rate is not discovered and exposed anywhere in...
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

Integrate GitHub Annotations into Anomaly reporting

Develop a GitHub integration for Cloudability that allows annotations from GitHub to be displayed directly in anomaly reports.This feature would link code changes, such as pull request merges or deployments, to potential shifts in cost profiles or...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

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...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

Please add the Workstations Status code on DWC Listing workstations. eg MDM (IJ MDEA) or FTA (LTI JW MD) BMDM (LTI JW MD A)

quick and easy view to see if the workstations have not got their correct status codes. Also we know where the EventProcessor is , without clicking multiply times to discover it. (simple GUI)
7 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Apptio Views manually managed. Provide the ability to link Views to roles or their Active Directory Groups.

We require Views to be linked to AD roles so that we can manage the cost data privileges that our users hold in the Apptio suite without having to do as we are currently, where for example a user will get a role 'user' or 'admin' and we have to ex...
7 days ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists