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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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Instana built-in health metrics

Instana backend provide built-in dashboard panels showing basic health metrics e.g. agent connection status, data delivery etc., backend data ingress and data ingestion status e.g. infrastructure, eum, events, user and apm
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Under review

Would like to give user(s) access to their own project in TBM Studio without also giving them access to the main Cost Transparency project.

Users in other areas of the business will be able to utilize Apptio without gaining access to confidential data or compromising the integrity of another user's project or the main CT project. It will help drive exposure and expansion of the applic...
9 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Ability to pull usage metrics from Cloudability into TBM Studio

Currently we can only pull cost into studio. Would would like to be able to pull other metrics such as vCPU Hours.
9 days ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Not under consideration

Configure custom dashboards with co-editors but without read-access for everyone

Currently for any custom dashboard I can configure whether it should be "private" or "public" (see attached screenshot). If I want to define co-editors, I only can use the "public" option, with that I also must make the dashboard visible for every...
9 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana

Title: Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana Details: IsBank would like to monitor and be able to create events on AIX hosts regards to the metrics below: - CPU run queue - NFS filesystem usage - Raw disk (not filesystem) utilization, for hdisks, read...
17 days ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
25 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Rich text in text widget

It would enhance the user experience in BI text widgets if hyperlinks and potentially more formatting options could be added. I do have text widgets with URL's right now but people have to select the text to navigate.
25 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Node logs(kubelet logs) by using Instana sensor or configurations

to get insights on the events and issues at Node level.
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Logging 4 Future consideration

Plugin to monitor the creation/modification of files in BLOB (azure)

There is a filewatcher program that monitors files on on-premises servers, allowing jobs to consume these files. But there is nothing similar to monitor files in the Azure cloud - BLOB
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Intergration oracle hypervisor (KVM)

to be able to monitor KVM workloads similar to VM ware hyper V
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release