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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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Availability Check for SAP Non ABAP Systems (Convergent Charging, BO Systems, SAP Web Dispatcher, and so on)

These are the relvante Metrics which we had to monitored For Convergent Charging Systems: SAP CC Instance Availability High GC heap usage It would be helpful if Instana could execute Powershell scripts and evaluate the corresponding status of the ...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Parking support for serverless service, like fargate

Currently, AWS serverless service, Fargate cannot be optimized. However, customer think it's useful just to be able to control that suspend for fargate service. *Currently, it is troublesome to control with scripts. Extend Parking functionality to...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Alert setup on Kubernetes Horizontal pod autoscaling nearing max pods capacity

Ability to setup alert on Kubernetes Horizontal pod autoscaling nearing max pods capacity as this requirement will help monitoring team to take action before Horizontal pod autoscaling reach its max capacity
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 3

Publishing only select reference data items to open forecasts

As an admin, we regularly update our IT Planning reference data.  In some instances, there are times when the updates are unable to be published into an open plan because certain reference data items have changed that are restricted from bein...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Direct access to Team entity

My question is more to see if there is a way to have a non admin user that is not associated with a team to be able to modify that team?  Is there something that can be done with permissioning and granting access to certain entities that woul...
almost 2 years ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review

Display [Description] field's text on mouse rollover of Editable Table's fields

As a TBMA, I would like to inform end users interacting with Editable Tables directly or via a report component of a field's description and other advice via mouse rollover pop-up text boxes to show that field's [Description] value. Such advice co...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Add a Search Feature to find data within Tables

The search feature will help both end users and admins/developers.  End users can use this search feature find where specific information is located in the Apptio Reports,  e.g. if a user wants to find everything about "Mobile Services",...
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Future consideration

Would like to have VMWare vCPU Shares (low, normal, high) as an attributes for filtering

To filtered down to VMs that has a certain vCPU shares settings. e.g. If all SQL VM should have "High" shares, we can quickly find if there is any SQL VM that has been misconfigured to have "low" or "normal" shares.

Application - Smart Alerts - Select Services endpoints - with name reg expression

Within an enterprise environment, there will be hundreds of entities if not thousand. Secondary, entities can be created, deleted in an elastic process. Being able to add a entity.host.name contains "java-13", would allow for dynamic assignment wi...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

It would be nice if we can get alert upon heap dumps creation on IBM WAS

A banking customer has requested the ability to monitor or receive alerts when a heap dump is created, but we currently lack this capability. Given this request, I’m considering suggesting to the customer, and potentially other clients, that they ...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review