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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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Improve Instana SaaS Account & Billing features by Billing Simulation

The feature of Billing Simulation and Forecast Event Notification in Dynatrace is needed at Instana. - Billing Simulation is displayed until the contract end date, showing three values: upper bound, lower bound, and average. - If an event occurs t...
14 days ago in Instana / Observability of AI 1 Submitted
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In GCP there are Flex CUDs that are used to reduce Ondemand costs on compute Resources. Turbonomic should discover and take Flex CUDs in consideration when rightsizing

This is useful as more clients on GCP are moving towards flex cuds and Turbonomic's rightsizing decisions need to take those into consideration to have trustworthy decisions on GCP compute resources.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

DI 7.1+ should allow for a super admin user to hide or change permissions on OOTB reports for tenants

In DI 7.0 and below, OOTB reports could be deleted. Some DI administrators would do this to tidy up the landing page and Reports form for tenants, so that they'd only have to view relevant reports. This was previously accomplished by using a check...
6 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Needs more information

Support Action Generation for GCP Managed Instance Groups (MIGs) in Turbonomic

Currently, Turbonomic does not generate actions for virtual machines (VMs) that are part of a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Managed Instance Group (MIG), unless a specific probe property is manually enabled (gcp.mig.vm.action.enabled). Even when ena...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 9

Farmacias Guadalajara is requesting to extend the observability of additional metrics for Informix DB that will complement the current sensor funcionality..

Farmacias Guadalajara has hundreds of branches distributed across Mexican territory. All the transactions generated on each branch are processed by Informix central databases, so it is critical to monitor the full health of Informix technology. We...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Under review

The columns showing up in any step of a table is not alphabetically sorted. A functionality to sort / arrange them alphabetically would be great and it's required as soon as possible.

The columns showing up in any step of a table is not alphabetically sorted. A functionality to sort / arrange them alphabetically would be helpful
5 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Requesting to add "Day of week" to business mapping for rightsizing tables.

Working on creating a COIN Dashboard for each provider AWS, Azure and GCP. In order to calculate Non production and Production costs by weekday and weekend, we need to evaluate the daily cost from the rightsizing data to categorize accordingly.
7 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Incorrect Call Tracing in Instana with Oracle Service Bus

We are using Instana to monitor our Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS). Their Oracle Service Bus (OSB) plays a central role in handling both internal and external service communications. However, they have observed an issue in the Instana Analysis Dash...
7 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Submitted

View/Edit anomaly detection - alert notifications centrally

Currently, the Cloudability console does not provide visibility into who has configured Anomaly Alerts Notifications. As the FinOps team, gaining insight into which users have enabled these alerts—along with the associated thresholds and the views...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review