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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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Instance Id to be included in actions excel for VMs and Databases, the way it is for Volumes

Hi Team, We download the Actions Center Excel file and share it with business owners for their approval. Many of the actions in the downloaded file appear identical. While the Turbonomic UI displays different Instance IDs for these actions, the Ex...
17 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Function (“Popup Message”) to inform users about maintenance work or updates

We recently had the problem that incorrect values/numbers were displayed to users in the reports (CT) due to an upload error. In this case, we unfortunately had no way of informing the users in Apptio that incorrect values currently exist (and tha...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 1 Submitted

Requesting slicers be enhanced to cater for “single selection”

Currently we have a filter where have an option to select multiple values from the filter, but we would like to have single selection from the filter. So that we can see values only apply to the particular quarter.
5 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Add a section for alerts in the host view

When searching for alerts set for a VM/host, you have to navigate to alerts and filter through all the alerts to see which may be applicable to that host. It would be easier if you could navigate to the host and see which alerts are tied to that s...
10 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Create Orphaned resources menu to be able to track deleted resources savings

Savings generated from deleted resources or orphaned resource cleanup is one of categories that Business is asking Cloud teams to track.
10 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Provision of Instana backend api function endpoint to retrieve agent sensor versions

I would be very useful to have an api endpoint in instana backend that delivered agent sensor versions.
11 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Group synthetic tests for better overview and navigation

It would be nice to create groups and assign tests to one or multiple groups to make it easier to find tests for team members or stakeholders of a certain test topic.
11 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

JMX Metric unit labeling is confusing at best

FROM TS017727981 We are using JMX metrics for datasources # Java & Custom JMX com.instana.plugin.java: jmx: - object_name: 'oracle.ucp.admin.UniversalConnectionPoolMBean:*' metrics: - attributes: 'borrowedConnectionsCount,availableConnectionsC...
24 days ago in Instana / Java 1 Submitted

Provide more details on the Apptio help center

Rightsizing in Cloudability (apptio.com) Currently the apptio help center doesn't include a comprehensive explaination on idle resource, such as the how to define S3 idle percentage, which will affect the user experience.
24 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Plan line items with error to be identified

As a plan editor and plan approver, I'd like to able to see all plan line items with an exclamation mark at the top of the list so that I can easily identify and review any errors present in the plan. When a filter is not applied, it becomes chall...
24 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted