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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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Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric in reports. This is for Cloudability in general. Sometimes we want to have the data ordered first by one dimension and then by other and it is not possible. Example first by payer account then b...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Under review

Cloudability - select multiple values ​​when creating a filter

Hello, I have to create some reports with a lot of filters, and I would like to be able to select (check) several values in one time, instead to select the dimensions as many times as I need.
4 months ago in Targetprocess 0 Submitted

Amazon recently announced DB2 on RDS. We'd like to take advantages of AWS infrastructure and ensure DB2 RDS is fully supported with IWS.

Amazon recently announced DB2 on RDS. We'd like to take advantages of AWS infrastructure and ensure DB2 RDS is fully supported with IWS.I know that the product is supported by it's version and platform may not impact it. However, I'd like to ensur...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Kubernetes CronJob Monitoring and Tracing

Ability to monitor CronJob as a separate service and enable tracing for CronJobs will help in monitoring the downstream calls just like other services. CronJobs can call other services using Rest APIs. It is helpful if we can monitor those Rest AP...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Tracing 8

Authentication mechanism used for the AWS Observer

One of our customer has a security policy in place, that enforces the following mechanism to be used when accessing AWS: The mechanism is to assume an IAM role in the AWS account using the 'sts:AssumeRoleWithSAML' AWS API call. This returns a set ...
9 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Planned for future release

Azure Application Insights monitoring

Support for collecting metrics, traces and logs from Azure Application InSight. This would enable insight into SaaS applications.
10 months ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

with RBAC enabled, ASM timeline turns resources blank when moving the slider to a time in the past

RBAC doesn't show any historical data, so this feature is unavailable with RBAC enabled
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Is a defect

Cloudability should have unified approach to resolving tag conflicts for all cloud service providers

Currently Cloudability is treating empty tag values in Azure differently than in GCP as my organization is using multi cloud architecture, we would want to be able to apply same logic and expect same results for all the cloud providers that we use.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana

Title: Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana Details: IsBank would like to monitor and be able to create events on AIX hosts regards to the metrics below: - CPU run queue - NFS filesystem usage - Raw disk (not filesystem) utilization, for hdisks, read...
2 months ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Under review

Dark mode in target process

Would be nice to at least have the option for a dark mode in target process to reduce eye strain. Thank you
4 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review