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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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The system importance needs to be idicated in the Infrastructure Map

In the infrastructure map, pillar hight is shown as the machine size (such as 4core small, 32core high)But for the operations of the systems, the machine size does not matter, but the business impact is important for us. Currently in the infrastru...
11 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Logs Enhancement - Smart Alert should have more grouping , Log file mentionning and log body

The New Log integration is functionnal within instana , but the smart alert integration lack key component to send alerts with the rightfull data for notifications. It currently will only tell you that you exceeded the set threshold regarding the ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Instance Id to be included in actions excel for VMs and Databases, the way it is for Volumes

Hi Team, We download the Actions Center Excel file and share it with business owners for their approval. Many of the actions in the downloaded file appear identical. While the Turbonomic UI displays different Instance IDs for these actions, the Ex...
11 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

To show Savings under Azure Savings Compute plan in commitment portfolio

Customer would like to see the Savings they are making on their account under Commitment Portfolio. As of now, they do see details related to Utilization, Hourly commit and Remaining cost, however having the option to see the savings happening wou...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 1 Submitted

API endpoint for User Management to allow customers to configure user profile characteristics such as auto-e-mails

Currently all users have summary e-mails enabled by default and only option is for all users to receive or all users not receive. Having a n API endpoint would allow us to programatically edit user profiles to provide a better user experience.
23 days ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Store Imported File Names in Event Log

When importing data into the expenses view of Planning, it would be helpful to store the name of the imported file in the event log. This will allow admins to know what file was loaded at a given time in the event there was an error in the data. T...
24 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Inclusion of Azure Web App in drop down in Commitment Portfolio

The customer has requested to include Azure Web App as an option under drop-down for commitment Portfilio.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 2 Submitted

More robust scheduling options for workflows

Please look into expanding the scheduling options for automation workflows and parking workflows. I think this would be extremely beneficial. Right now, I have a use case where we have certain servers that stay off until they are needed, such as c...

When multiple alerts are sent to a given alert channel, send a single message instead of 1 message per alert

Some users have more than 50 applications. When a core application is down, all connected applications generate an alert. Then the user receive a lot of emails or teams messages, which makes it difficult to handle. We would like to add the possibi...
8 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

About Azure MySQL Lock

Is it possible to collect Azure MySQL Lock-related metrics and set up events? Assuming no, is there a roadmap for the future?
9 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted