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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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More than a project or a project list in Openstack Agent configuration

We are using Openstack Instana agent to monitor IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center (ICIC) in the agent configuration we need to specify a single project and consequently to see only the Computer Instances related to this projet. In order to have a co...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Enable Synthetic Test Metric Collection for Custom Dashboards

Summary:We would like to request the ability to capture and store custom metrics gathered during the execution of synthetic tests in IBM Instana. These metrics, which can be extracted from SQL queries, API responses, or other synthetic test result...
4 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Details around a versioned table in the pipeline step

As a user I would like to be able to identify where a version in a table has happened and when. We would like to include it in the pipeline step shown in the image below, therefore, it is obvious there is a version and the document does not have t...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Under review

Labour Actuals

We were wondering to request to  labor actuals in the same way we load cost actuals via spend management . At the moment the labour actuals can be overwritten or deleted in error by users. Having this option would lock the actuals for labour ...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Enabling the option of ordering SLOs by status

We would like to have the option to order SLOs by status AND/OR having the change to filter those which have their budget exhausted This feature at the Service Levels panel would make the tools more user-friendly, in my opinion.
3 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Future consideration

Limit the number of children events in Scope Based Event Grouping Policy

Currently, any number of children events can be added to a parent event or group using Scope Based Event Grouping. At present, 100s of events can be grouped under a single parent group. However, there should be a way to limit the number of childre...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Limiting Tables to Top X Amount of Rows

Hi Team, I had originally reached out via Apptio Community, and it was suggested I bring this as an enhancement request: https://community.apptio.com/question/limiting-tables-to-top-x-amount-of-rows#1e0db23b-4549-4c63-a2a0-018e2f23f44f We ...
12 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

CP4AIOps Connections - warning when creating Connections with invalid names

When creating a Connection in CP4AIOps (to Instana), you can create this Connection using characters like "_" with no warning. However, the Connection fails later on because of these illegal characters. It would be better if a warning appears when...
12 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Create alerts based on logs

Possibility to create alerts (custom or Smart) based on logs filter.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 3

Support Cron Expressions for automations scheduling

TargetProcess allows scheduling automations to run every x days, y hours, or z minutes. It would be a great improvement if we could use Cron Expressions to schedule automations. For example, if I want to run a specific automation every monday and ...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Under review