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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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Trigger an email to remind customers that their Single Sign On (SSO) Certificate needs to be refreshed within Frontdoor.

Apptio SSO Certificates are now refreshed by the Customer, self served via Domain Management within Access Administration on Frontdoor. This refresh needs to take place annually and if not completed in time the customers end users will no longer b...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Other 1 Submitted

To not share the sensitive column data to Costing while using CTI or ADM.

To not share the sensitive column data to Costing while using CTI or ADM.
7 days ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Lifecycle management for unattached disks

Introduce a lifecycle management process for unattached disks to optimize storage efficiency. This includes: Automated Tiering: Move unattached disks from hot to cold tier based on usage and detached status (detached >= 45 days) Analytics/Reass...
13 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

WAS Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Enterprise Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application Status.
24 days ago in Instana / WAS 0 Submitted

include support for the Kerberos/SAML authentication method

NTLM (Incl LANMAN, NTLMv1 and NTLMv2) was depreciated in Jun 2024 from Microsoft’s official announcement. Microsoft had released a MS Jan patch 2025 that enforce to remove the use of NTLMv1 in Win2025 servers. Microsoft may provide a MS patch to r...

Adding the ability to filter IBM DataPower entities by IBM MQ v9+ objects

Dynamic focus query supports only filtering by appliance, cluster, domain or service objects. It would be useful to have the option to filter IBM MQ v9+ objects using name and status (see the idea INSTANA-I-3384), e.g., entity.ibmdatapower.qmv9.na...
5 days ago in Instana / DataPower 0 Submitted

Adding status metrics for the IBM MQ v9+ object

The sensor for IBM Data Power and the object IBM MQ v9+ supports only Back-End Active Connections and Front-End Active Connections metrics. However it is important to know the status of the object because it has a tendency to shut down when IBM MQ...
5 days ago in Instana / DataPower 0 Submitted

Enhanced change log and version control system

Summary: Introduce a change log and version control system to track modifications made to business mappings, tags/labels, account group mappings, and views within the platform, allowing users to view, compare, and revert changes as needed. Use cas...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Submitted

Kafka Sensor: Support Kafka Kraft Deployments

In Kafka Zookeeper deployments are deprecated since Confluent kafka 7.5 https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/kafka-metadata/zk-production.html Even though IBM Instana Kafka Agent supports Confluent Kafka 7.7.1 according to Support Sheet http...
7 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Logging and Display Features for "Send Mail" in CT Report Export

Currently, the "Send Mail" feature does not keep logs of sent emails. For the client I am responsible for, the inability to review the sending history of emails makes it difficult to properly handle user requests for sending confirmations. Proposa...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Planned for future release