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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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Multi-level approval flows that is independent of the department hierarchy

We would like multi-level approval flows that is independent of the department hierarchy. In our state authorizing environment, we have certain use cases where there are 2 approving agencies. Currently, you can set 2 users as the cost object owner...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1

Ability to Publish Approval Status to Cost Transparency

When publishing data from IT Planning to Cost Transparency, we'd like to be able to see the cost center approval status. We use automated data mgmt a on a daily basis, but we only want to publish the approved cost centers. Sending the status colum...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

Increase Shared Rules Values field character limit

In Cloudability / Insights / Containers (Container Insights 2.0), I want to add some 'shared rules'. - The values field is limited to 50 characters only. This means I might be able to add 2... or maybe 3 namespaces only. - Given that I need to add...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Future consideration

Support RegEx in Values field of Shared Rules

In Cloudability / Insights / Containers (Container Insights 2.0), I want to add some 'shared rules', based on Namespace names. - A regular Openshift cluster has 72 (!) namespaces starting with 'openshift-'. - As cluster admins, we install cluster ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Future consideration

Include time range in exported dashboard

When exporting Dashbaords (ie/ PDF) time range seclected is not included. Thefore if ther is no time series then we have no clue on what is the time range of the shown metrics
about 2 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Under review

Ability to check for Integration updates through a proxy

Simple one: Include functionality in the API pod such that it is able to check for updates from Automation Library (or S3) through a proxy. Right now only the NodeJS and Worker pods can do this it seems, but it being able to do it from the API wou...
about 2 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Under review

KeyDB Sensor

Customers using KeyDB
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Ability to create alerts on aggregated prometheus metrics values over multiple K8s pods

In the prom metrics business metrics are captured for which the sum/aggregation needs to be a potential value to be alerted on.
about 4 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1

Improve the vCenter observer for CP4AIOPS and ASM.

Current observer contains a lot of resources that have limited value by themselves and should be properties of a parent. For example virtual servers are a resource but the observer also creates a child resource for each VM called CPU that contains...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Instana needs to support AutoTrace for OpenResty pod

Instana declares the support tracing for 3scale's OpenResty container. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-nginx#other-supported-information But its support is limited for the manual instrumentat...
about 1 year ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 2 Planned for future release