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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 Savings Plans for compute (VMs)

Earlier this year Azure came up with Savings plans support for compute. Similar in concept to AWS Savings plans. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/offers/savings-plan-compute/#benefits-and-features Product does not currently support this. ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Planned for future release

Azure Sql Db scaling shouldn't only consider DTUS but also IOPS

This customer has an application which is very sensitive to IOPS. They specifically chose Premium Tier DTU , as it has MUCH more IOPS. >25 IOPS per DTU vs 1-4 IOPS per DTU. So when Turbonomic sees the DTU usage (which is a combination of CPU/ME...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Future consideration

Get Request Payload and Header details for calls not visible in analyze

We would like to view details for the request payload and headers for api/endpoint in the analytics page. This would help in analyzing the request payload and troubleshooting of failures for api's.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Functionality already exists

News Banner on IWS DWC portal after user login

If there option to add cusmised Colored scrolling or fix News Banner on IWS DWC portal after any Oprator login to portal,Thsi will be very usefull to anounce planned CRQ for IWS or DWC portal or Admin can put outage details in advance in News Banner
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Feature to change Instana metrics granularity / polling interval

There is a 1s granularity hard-coded in Instana. That is for example for host metrics and JVM etc. It would be great if we could increase the granularity at will in UI admin settings and at agent-level in configurations. For performance related re...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Increase Retention Time for Mobile App Beacons

We currently only have a history of 7 days which is not even covering an entire release cycle of 2 weeks. Ideally would be a data retention time of at least 4 weeks so we can compare data over a longer period and especially with the previous rollo...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Cost Transparency - Custom Calendar Request to Match Fiscal Calendar

Currently when we build a query for a fiscal month, ApptioOne will show or apply the calendar month. We would like to see the option of the formula to be the Fiscal month time period and not the calendar month. So February would be  Current D...
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Certificate support for technical users

An enterprise business would rather like the opportunity to use certificates as a means of authentication for the technical users driving the Dynamic Workload Console.During installation two specific technical users are needed for DWC (One databas...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Under review

Quick add, drag&drop, prioritization, customization of columns and filtering for fourth level (sub-level) in lists

Currently quick add and drag&drop are only available for entities selected in view setup (lets call this first "three levels", when both axes are selected). So called "fourth level" (which user cannot select, as it is hardcoded in the system) ...
over 10 years ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Planned for future release

Calculated / Dynamic Columns for Rate * Quantity

Similar to Service Demand Planning, it would be very helpful to have the ability to add calculated columns to ITP for services that are rate * quantity. Currently the dollar amount for volume driven services have to be manually calculated in ITP.&...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration