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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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Drill Option to be enabled with Net Spend Feature when selecting compare in the time range

Customer wants to create a report which first will report with Net Spend on a Account Name or Cost Center Basis. Once we can identify a cost center with the biggest net spend. We should be able to drill into the table by service name to understand...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Standard edition without need Subdomains

We need the possibility to run instana without the need of Subdomains. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=cluster-preparing DNS Settings
6 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Include the Connection count metric for Azure SQL recommendations

Rightsizing - We need Cloudability to have the number of connections metric for Azure SQL Database recommendations - "Succesful connections" in the details of the recommendations
6 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Submitted

Support Virtual Threads for Tomcat 10 and higher version

We need a support Virtual Threads for Tomcat 10 and higher version
6 days ago in Instana / Java 0 Planned for future release

logs when status maps are updated

Currently, logs are only recorded in the audit logs when maps are created, deleted, or renamed. However, there are no logs generated when the contents of status maps, such as nodes or paths, are updated. Implementing such logging would help identi...
6 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Request for Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud) Support in Turbonomic

Dear Turbonomic Production Team, Turbonomic currently lacks support for Alibaba Cloud, and I strongly believe that incorporating this support would be invaluable, especially given the significant presence of Alibaba Cloud in the Chinese market. No...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Not under consideration

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
27 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Default API URL for reports should include all rows of data instead of only displayed rows

When copying API URLs, currently the default is to copy only the displayed rows (first page) of the report data when the Component Information URL is copied. "&rowCount=1000000000" must be added on to include the entire report. It would be mor...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

extend Netcool OMNIbus message_bus jms transport layer to parse jms header meta data

actually the Netcool Message_Bus probe jms transport layer only parses the jms message payload data, but not the jms message header data. The jms header data contains important information like message-id, timestamps, object-uri, etc. which is imp...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Instana Should be Able to Check Server Time Drift

Instana does not have the capacity to check a Server time against a specified its time server . If a sever drift too much or does not apply its time change it cause business impact
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review