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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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Integrate supported instance types for Anthos workloads in rightsizing recommendations

https://support.apptio.com/s/case/5004v00001p2cEDAAY/integrate-supported-instance-types-for-anthos-workloads-in-rightsizing-recommendations List of supported instance types: https://cloud.google.com/anthos/clusters/docs/multi-cloud/aws/reference/s...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 2 Needs more information

Integrate supported instance types for SAP workloads in rightsizing recommendations

https://support.apptio.com/s/case/5004v00001p2cDyAAI/integrate-supported-instance-types-for-sap-workloads-in-rightsizing-recommendations List of supported instance types: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quickstart/latest/sap-hana/instances.html
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 2 Needs more information

Flow Rules and ability to block unknown

I would like a way to block all "unknown" flows from all flow collectors such that I do not process flows I do not want to have in my system. These unknown sources eat resources on collectors and I would rather an a "deny ip any any unknown" type ...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Needs more information

Support tracing of ICAP-calls (protocol technology support)

Hello,we have service application using ICAP protocol to send and receive data to be virus scanned.It would be awesome to see this calls in Instana
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 5 Needs more information

Project field to be mandatory for all tabs

Currently, the project field is only mandatory for the labor activity tab but would like to make this mandatory for all tabs.
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Needs more information

Ability to capture .Net based performance metrics

Ability to capture .Net based performance metrics
5 months ago in Instana / .NET 1 Needs more information

Enhance Driver To Support Devices

To enhance NCM drivers to support below devices 1. HUAWEI CE6851-48S6Q-HI2. NetEngine 8000 M144. NetEngine 8000 M85. ATN 950D
5 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Needs more information

Allow Token or userid password from IBM MQ to Instana agent

IBM MQ introduced telemtry as per doc : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.4?topic=operator-integrating-mq-instana-tracing It doe snot provide secure conection and authentication option when configuring on-prem or non ibm otel providers. Also, t...
5 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Needs more information

TBM Studio X Cloudability Integration

We learned from Apptio DAT team no direct integration from TBM Studio to Cloudability. This means we need to maintain Tags and Business Mappings manually or using API. This is a major challenge and not feasible for a large organization and project...
6 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 1 Needs more information

Ensure stacked bar charts can be limited to show set # of elements on the axis, but no limit on the stacking

Right now we either have the option to show an inaccurate chart limited by the "# of rows" feature, or show ALL rows which makes too much data visually available in the chart. These are not good options and we should be able to just show a stacked...
6 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Needs more information