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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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Top Hosts By System Uptime

Today, we have the host uptime information when looking at the 'Started At' data when drilling into an individual host. We would like to see the top hosts based on uptime duration on a custom consolidated dashboard so we can see which one(s) have ...
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Allow navigation to groups directly from the groups management page

As a user while I am managing groups I would like the ability to navigate to a group so that I don't have to click Search->Groups->Type the Group name->Then select the group
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Future consideration

Discover Azure Storage Account Soft Delete Capacities

Discovery Azure Storage accounts and their respective soft delete capacities. Based on the soft deleted capacities calculate size of soft deleted blobs providing the ability to save consumption costs for Azure Storage that is not easily visible to...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Modelled Reports

As TBMA a lot of our time is consumed explaining to  our stakeholders via various means- reports, ppt slides, endless meetings, comms, diagrams how cost flows from the bottom of the model ie cost source through all hierarchies to the Service ...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Analytics Calls value link

Hi Would be nice if you could take values from the calls details page and make it an variable in a link to another site. The use case is customer is using OTEL and we get "db.sqlid" value klsdjf9034r. The customer is requesting if we could have a ...
5 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

See Time Dimensions vertically along with other dimensions and values in a table

I create reports in TBM and would like to be able to build out reports with a Months column, a YearToDate metric column, and any additional dimensions and metrics.  To display the monthly values vertically, we would need the capability of tre...
12 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Keep billing data statistics based on the Data Retention policy (currently, it can only display up to 30 days at maximum)

Currently, Cost Breakdown Charts can display data from the last 7 or 30 dayshttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/tarm/8.11.0?topic=types-cost-breakdown-charts On the other hand, according to the Data Retention Policy as whole turbonomic, it is possible to ...

Add support for Azure Microsoft Dynamics 365 to Instana

Add observability capability to Dynamics 365 to extend visibility into workloads running on that Azure service. That would enable an end-to-end traces accessing that service. That capability would be useful for all customers that are using Dynamic...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Labor Adjustment % rate

I would like to raise and enhancement request for the Labour Adjustment % to be auto filled, driven by the labour reference data by location and employee type of internal. This would save any % not being filled out when users are adding new labour...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

PUT-API for Tags

Right now you can create Tags with the Post API. But it fails if there is already an existing Tag. But there is no PUT API to change a tag and update tags. The only way is to delete all tags and create them again. It would be very useful if there ...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration