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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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Allocate static costs or credits to a specific business unit to ensure actuals against your budget is accurate in CFP

We have a couple of active scenarios: #1 we've got vendors who contribute to cloud cost that have no formal integration into Cloudability. In those instances the costs stay the same every month and its charged to a specific business unit, we want ...
19 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

enable the feature to enlarge the column in Cost sharing

Issue: customer cannot enlarge this first column resulting into the statement name are truncated. Issue is happening at : Go to CloudabilityGo to Organize -> Cost sharingGo to Explorerwe are able to decrease and increase the length of first col...
19 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Need a feature where user can share multiple dashboard/ all dashboard at one go to multiple users seamlessly

The customers can share a single dashbaord at this moment and if they need to share a specific type of dashboard to multiple users at one go, it is a tedious process.
19 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Email subscription on a report should report data even if the data source is not part of your default view

When a user in Cloudability subscribes to a report in order to receive the report on email, the result in the email report will return 0 if the data source (for example account name) is not a part of the users default view. Meaning, that if a user...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Need to trace core banking application based on Temenos

Dear Colleagues, our customer is using Temenos software as a core banking application and they miss tracing of the application. There are few traces: - com.temenos.t24 - com.temenos.tafj (com.temenos.tafj.runtime.statements.jStatements:READ) pleas...
20 days ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Use IBM clickhouse with AWS S3 Service

We would like use AWS S3 Service with Instana clickhouse for warm/cold data to improve cost effectiveness
20 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Workloads at Kirkland being seasonal, max observation period is needed to be 180 days

Kirkland would like to set the max observation period to 180 days from current max allowable 90 days.
20 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
20 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Support of IBM ACE on Windows

Supporting IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) on Windows for Monitoring Adding support for monitoring IBM ACE on Windows would greatly benefit development and QA teams who primarily use Windows environments during local testing and early-stage deplo...
21 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Allow Customization of Long-Term Trace Retention Policies in Instana On-Prem

We are currently running IBM Instana in an on-premises environment and have encountered limitations with trace retention configuration. According to the official documentation, only the short-term trace retention policy is configurable. However, o...
21 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted