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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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Azure default configuration.yaml and documentation is very misleading

When looking at the default configuration.yaml for Azure and looking at the documentation, it is very misleading. And, it does not follow standard documentation principals. It causes confusion and causes customers to specify invalid configurations...
11 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

GCP Cost not tally if not filter by Invoice Date/ID

GCP Cost numbers are not tally. Can't do monthly view as number will never be correct with GCP Native Billing
22 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Add ability to configure and schedule discovery start time

Customers need configurable discovery start time to minimize service disruption during peak usage.
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Submitted

API-C physical appliance monitoring

currently this is the module we dont support either remote or local monitoring is needed for this part.
12 days ago in Instana / API-C 0 Submitted

Turbonomic support for UCS X Manager Target.

We will like to get support for adding our plataform UCS X Manager, that will provide visibility and more details to the actions that Turbonomic identinfied.
12 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

Set the default location to the same page when copying a visualisation

When copying a page in Apptio BI, the default page is the next page. To copy to the same page you need to scroll all the way to the bottom of the list to select 'Current Page'. I would like the 'Current Page' to be the first item in the list, maki...
12 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Enabling Traceability on Azure Key Vault

The information provided today by Instana is not enough to determine when a problem occurs at the transaction level in Azure Key Vault, the information regarding performance and configuration metrics could be complemented by reviewing in depth the...
12 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Instana UI : Display monitored Service names in host page

We need to monitor windows services but on host page can only see pid & process names. Since these services are all using same process, we cannot really know which service is what. Displaying actual service name and description on host page (e...
24 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Enhance Instana or Instana agents capability to cache data, during Instana backend upgrade

Hello Team, we are reaching out to request an enhancement to improve data retention capabilities during Instana backend infrastructure upgrades. Recently, during our self-host air-gapped environment Instana backend upgrade, we observed that all In...
13 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Language Expansion

At this time, only English and Japanese are offered as language settings in Apptio. It would be extremely valuable for the Spanish language to be added as well.
13 days ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted