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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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Group synthetic tests for better overview and navigation

It would be nice to create groups and assign tests to one or multiple groups to make it easier to find tests for team members or stakeholders of a certain test topic.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Google Cloud Service Mesh Support request

GKE provides Google Cloud Service Mesh on GKE, which is google managed version of Istio. Now Instana already supports Istio and OpenShift Service Mesh, but not Google Cloud Service Mesh yet. We used this Google Cloud Service Mesh on GKE and reques...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Reporting that shows the financial impact of Changes at Towers, Services Business Units

As an Apptio Developer I would like to be able to see the impact of my changes in a report BEFORE I check in, against the cost metric at Resource Towers, Business Services and Business Unit allocation. Then I know that the changes I am making are ...
5 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Enable Views to be shared based on role assignment rather than named users.

Support Case Ref:00355348 This applies to Apptio TOTALCOST including Cloudability and TBM Studio/Cost Transparency. Our access management approach is such that we expose certain features to our end users based on their Mission Organization. A Mi...
6 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Generate documentation from system note fields

In TBM Studio we can create in-product documentation writing notes on:- Tables in the Table description- Columns in the Description of the Import step as well as in the Formulas step- Allocations in the Notes section- Metrics in the Description fi...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Future consideration

Adding additional filter to Analytics Infrastructure view

We have two cassandra clusters with the same name (apm_cassandra) but in different openshift clusters. Because the cluster name is the same, I'm unable to filter out the specific one I'm interested in under Analyze Infrastructure -> Cassandra C...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Monitoring the number of Cassandra Tombstones

We have recently found that Cassandra (a component of CNEA/ASM) performance is degraded due to large number of Tombstones. However, we can only see the high number of tombstones in pod logs but not a metric we can monitor. If we can montior the co...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Cloudability for SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)

SAP Business Technology Platform is an innovation platform optimised for SAP applications in the cloud and a PaaS cloud computing service offered by SAP.More than 16,000 cloud customers are using BTP, and due to the Transformation to S/4HANA, more...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Include a simple method to import AD/LDAP certificates for external authentication

The current method to import the LDAP certificate to allow for external AD authentication is extremely complex, cumbersome, time consuming, and error prone. Multiple troubleshooting sessions are needed at times to figure out how to get the certifi...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 1 Future consideration

Instana Pod Monitoring on Windows Nodes

The current requirement is to enable Instana pod monitoring on a Windows worker node in the absence of a Linux worker node within the cluster. This necessitates the implementation of Windows pod monitoring capability within the existing framework.
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Future consideration