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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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Freezing of a Scenario in Costing Essentials

The ability to lock a scenario, so future changes does not affect the current scenario. The reason this is really needed, is for Finance and CIO to freeze a budget on both a financial level, but also on allocations throughout the year. This is wha...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 3 Under review

Add support for Oracle Enterprise Service Bus

Support for extracting metrics, logs, and traces from an Oracle Enterprise Service Bus.
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Enable users to filter Cloudy reports by multiple resource IDs simultaneously using an ‘in’ operator, eliminating the need to add each resource ID as a separate filter.

Why it is useful: Currently, users who want to filter Cloudy reports by several resource IDs must add a separate filter for each ID. This process is time-consuming and cumbersome, especially when dealing with large numbers of resource IDs (e.g., 1...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Under review

Session Starts asociation with UserID in Mobile

Currently, in Mobile, Instana is not associating the UserID with beacons generated before the user logs in. This causes the first "Session Start" of a session to lack the linked UserID, affecting user count metrics and the accuracy of user trackin...
4 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Under review

Turbonomic | Added support for Parquet format in the CUR report.

Some customers have already exported their cost reports, but instead of using gzip - text/csv, they are using Parquet, which is generally more efficient. In such cases, they have to recreate the reports, so it would be helpful if Parquet format co...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Add Cloudability Rightsizing ROI endpoint data to Apptio BI for reporting

The reporting on the Cloudability ROI screen is very primitive and doesn't allow for each reporting of rightsizing tickets and savings. Please add the dataset to Apptio BI so it can be integrated with standard user reporting.
27 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Automatically reconfigure host to add/remove licensed hosts for Turbonomic with Flexera integration

As a user of the Turbonomic integration with Flexera, I would like my host groups managed/automated in such a way that i do not have to create and update them, and when there is demand for additional licensed hosts Turbonomic will be able to recon...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

Add support for X.509 certificate-based authentication in the MariaDB sensor for Instana.

Currently, the Instana MariaDB sensor does not support SSL or X.509 certificate-based authentication. Our customer(BWI) uses X.509 authentication for all database access, and despite following the documented configuration steps, the sensor fails t...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Color Coding ability

We need ability to apply color coding to visual table report based on values in its rows for example, if custom field value is true we want to see row in green and when false - in red
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Under review

Send Anomaly Detection Alerts to Account Owners

Our internal Cloud Optimization team would like to use the Anomaly Detection API to send alerts to the owners of accounts that have an anomaly. As of right now you can only set up Anomaly Subscriptions for the API key you are working under. This e...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review