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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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Allow creation of a new custom report collection in Bill of IT

For  Bill of IT module, we are required to create a new report collection for saving and efficiency related custom report and keep them in a single collection for customers. We dont want to use Custom Bill of IT reports collection  for t...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 1 Planned for future release

Allow the option to set our own custom domain within Apptio

It doesn't look like there's an option in Apptio for true SSO currently unless we use the Azure My Apps URL. As this is quite long, we will implement a workaround where we setup a domain of customerurl and redirect that to the SSO URL. However, on...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Request to display total number virtual logical processors in Instana dashboard when Windows Server 2019 has more than 64 cores assigned.

Windows 2019 Operating system's native applications such as Task Manager can manage and maintain to show more than 64 logical processors. Instana currently lacks ability to display total number of virtual processors assigned to Windows Server 2019...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

NMS plugin for Nutanix

Many prospect customer have intention to move out of VMware and 1 of the favorite choice is Nutanix. Demand for Nutanix Plugin to monitor the infrastructure and platform is increasing by day.
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Displaying Incorrect Assigned Virtual Cores in Instana Dashboard for Windows Server 2019

Problem Statement: The Instana Dashboard does not display the full number of virtual cores assigned to Windows Server 2019 virtual machines due to a design limitation. This creates a discrepancy in monitoring data for Windows 2019 OS, which impact...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Include date in projected end timestamp for schedules

If you set an end time of 1464 hours later, for example, you'll get a message like: Occurs once effective Tue, Aug 20, 2024 starting at 14:00 and finishing 61 days later at 14:00. This idea is for including a timestamp at the end time: Occurs once...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

instana monitor confluent kafka group lag

instana can not monitor confluent kafka group lag, confluent kafka protocol is sasl_ssl, not defalut plain protocol
5 months ago in Instana / Java 2 Future consideration

Provide fixed relative positioning for vertices in the topology templates

It is essential to be able to provide the functionlaity in the AIOPs topology building templates to fix the positioning of the vertex and thier neighbouring vertex. The vertex when positioned via the drag-and-drop function during the template buil...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

License expiration notification should be configurable

Currently, all users accessing Instana will get a notification that the license is about to expire 30 days prior to license end date. This notification should be configurable, allowing admins to enable and configure it. Configuration of who gets t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 1 Future consideration

Synthetic Data not available for dashboards

We are not able to create dashboard with synthetics data, use cases: * line graph of historical results of all synthetics in a specific location or by region for x range of days* see all failed synthetics for a pop location or for a region in a gi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Future consideration