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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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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

Cloudability / BI landing page for new users.

New users to Cloudability typically onboard by requesting SSO access but are without context when logging in to Apptio Cloudability for the first time. I would like to direct first time users to a landing page which would serve as a getting starte...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Export directly in xls or xlsx format

It would be useful to have the possibility to directly export into a more common Excel format next to the csv format.
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Planned for future release

Extended organization of favorites with folders

It would be useful to give users the possibility to organize their favorites also with folders so they can more logically group favorites in function of their use/need. It would also be interesting to allow those folders then to be shared. This m...
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Under review

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris
6 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Instana monitoring agent for IBM Datapower physical appliance

Currently IBM Datapower monitoring is available only for below setup 1. DataPower in a virtual machine2. DataPower in a Kubernetes cluster3. DataPower in a Docker container But it is not available for IBM Datapower physical appliance setup. Many c...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Create Orphaned resources menu to be able to track deleted resources savings

Savings generated from deleted resources or orphaned resource cleanup is one of categories that Business is asking Cloud teams to track.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Add more collection operators to filter expressions

Existing collection operators are ".Where", ".Count", and ".Contains". It would be useful to have other operators like ".sum", ".max", ".min", etc. The Metrics and Validation rules DSL support these operators; it would make sense for the filter ex...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Filters 0 Under review

More than one subscription in a one Cloud Service Agents

In the documentation there is a issue to use one single agent for each Azure subscription as we are able to create a Reading Service Accounts for the whole Azure Tenant and have many subscrioptions; will it possible to configure an agent in order ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Show Parent Widget Name on Widget edit screen.

For example, if we would like to create a custom widget with "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity which used on "Cloud Executive Dashboard", but finding "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity from "Add Widget" function is not a easy task unfotunatelly...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release