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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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Dollar value for on-prem scaling - just like Cloud. Each action has a saving/cost to it.

The customer would like Turbo to put a price tag on each action. They want to be able to tell how much adding vMem or vCPU or a combo. to a VMware VM costs. The customer is aware that it depends on a bunch of things (cost/hr of host, cost/hr of da...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Planned for future release

Waterfall Chart in Cost Transparency

This enhancement request would allow us to view the full page of the waterfall chart in the Cost Transparency > Production environment and hide the data entry table that is only needed in TBM Studio > Development environment.  However, ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 1 Planned for future release

Recommending the ideal configuration based on demand "forecasts".

Currently, Turbonomic actions can only be generated based on historical statistical data. However, we would like to receive recommendations for optimal configuration in advance, anticipating events such as the annual busy season that will occur ne...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Future consideration

URL link field

We would like to a add a field which is a URL link to supporting documentation
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Permissions to Restrict Only Check In or Check Out

We have multiple developers of varying levels working in TBM Studio. We would like some of these users to have the ability to Check Out tables and reports in TBM Studio so they can create a copy or see additional options, while restricting their a...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Commitment Portfolio - Customer want to set the alerts based on Usage family and Service

Commitment Portfolio - Customer want to set the alerts based on Usage family and Service
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 1 Future consideration

Anomaly - Customer wants to replace the Cost Total with Cost Amortized metric

Anomaly Detection - Customer wants to replace the Cost Total with Cost Amortized metric
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Request for Native Support for PHP Applications on Azure App Service

Dear Instana Team, We would like to request native support for Azure App Service running PHP applications. Our current workaround involves installing the Instana agent in the startup script as a Linux agent. This approach is not convenient for our...
about 1 month ago in Instana / PHP 0 Submitted

Adding "Call Name" and "HTTP URL" as group options in the "Analytics > Applications > Traces" view.

In the "Analytics > Applications > Calls" view, we understand that there are many group options, such as by "Call Name" or "HTTP URL." However, the customer has requested that similar group options be available on a per-trace basis as well. ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Allow for Key Milestones to Appear on Roadmap Views

It would be helpful to have the option to display key milestones on epic roadmaps so we can see what the milestones for that specific epic are. Currently, we only have the ability to show milestones with the standard milestone in the system, but t...