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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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Add Alert Channels as scope option in Maintenance Windows

Context: Instana's Maintenance Windows feature offers, at the moment, either Application Perspective, Selected Entities (Dynamic Focus) or Synthetic Tests as scopes in order to generate silence windows. Problem: Maintenance Windows is the only fea...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Sharing Private Layouts in IT Planning

We have a layout in the labor tab that is used periodically throughout the year when exporting out of IT Planning.  In order to prevent our user base from editing it, I have marked the layout as private.  However, this limits other admin...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

JMX Metric unit labeling is confusing at best

FROM TS017727981 We are using JMX metrics for datasources # Java & Custom JMX com.instana.plugin.java: jmx: - object_name: 'oracle.ucp.admin.UniversalConnectionPoolMBean:*' metrics: - attributes: 'borrowedConnectionsCount,availableConnectionsC...
3 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Submitted

Provide more details on the Apptio help center

Rightsizing in Cloudability (apptio.com) Currently the apptio help center doesn't include a comprehensive explaination on idle resource, such as the how to define S3 idle percentage, which will affect the user experience.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Plan line items with error to be identified

As a plan editor and plan approver, I'd like to able to see all plan line items with an exclamation mark at the top of the list so that I can easily identify and review any errors present in the plan. When a filter is not applied, it becomes chall...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Have a method to script for a custom metric

Summary: Provide a custom metric method for the IBM Instana agent which a script (perl/java/sh/etc) could be hosted within the IBM Instana agent and would run at set intervals. The output would then be published to the backend on the node/server. ...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4 Not under consideration

Configuration of Application Perspective spanning over multiple custom tag filter criteria in End-to-End view

Configuration of Application Perspective spanning over multiple custom tag filter criteria in End-to-End view We need urgently a way to build application perspective views based on discrete call tags that arise at various points in service hierarc...
5 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Add "Cluster Tags" to VM group creation

Currently there is not a way to create VM groups based on its cluster tag. This feature would provide a great way to create dynamic groups based on something we can extract from vCenter from other use cases. For example, say I have a supercluster ...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Promotion to Incident only group of alerts

Incidents are created to categorize the alert and allow notification to the associated ITSM to open a trouble ticket. The Alert Group correlates a series of alerts based on correlation policies. In my view, only alert groups should be promoted to ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Allow customers to reprocess business dimensions

Currently, if you make any changes to a business dimension and you want those changes reflected prior to the current month, you have to submit a support ticket. I regularly submit 1-3 tickets every month to reprocess our business dimensions. Pleas...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted