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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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If Number of Jobs in Queue is >= threshold then the alert should be triggered.

We have configured some of the jobs visible in Smart alert but still many other jobs are not visible in smart alerts to enable this monitoring parameter. The support team has identified reason behind and it is that only Top 20 Jobs would be visibl...
11 days ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Needs more information

1. Incorporate CSV Attachments in Email Reports & 2. Ensure Full Feature Parity Between Data Insight and NMS Reports

Incorporate CSV Attachments in Email ReportsIntroduce the option to include raw data in CSV format as an attachment when generating and sending email reports through Data Insight. This feature is already available in NMS (vPAS) but is currently ab...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Trigger an email to remind customers that their Single Sign On (SSO) Certificate needs to be refreshed within Frontdoor.

Apptio SSO Certificates are now refreshed by the Customer, self served via Domain Management within Access Administration on Frontdoor. This refresh needs to take place annually and if not completed in time the customers end users will no longer b...
2 months ago in Apptio / Other 1 Submitted

Apptio CT and Datalink should provide capability to export data to CSV

CSV is one of the standard feed format used for data ingress/egress between systems. In general, CSV is considered to be better than XLS because of its capacity to carry more data and to retain the original data formats. In our organization, all o...
15 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Future consideration

Want to be able to execute Automations from a specific Agent

Within the Action Catalog for executing automations, the target server can be selected if the Automation is run manually by a person. The person sees a list of available Agents and selects one. But, when executing the Actions in an automated way v...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Under review

Enable Internet Service Monitoring protocols in Instana

We must be able to monitor more protocols with less effort like an ISM Agent: DNS resolution, DHCP, FTP, LDAP, NTP, TCP PORT, SNMP simple, Synthetic Check sensor supports HTTP and ICMP ping. We can ensure a seamless migration of customers from ITM...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Logging and Display Features for "Send Mail" in CT Report Export

Currently, the "Send Mail" feature does not keep logs of sent emails. For the client I am responsible for, the inability to review the sending history of emails makes it difficult to properly handle user requests for sending confirmations. Proposa...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Planned for future release

Re-order of Pages in Apptio BI Report

Customer has created multiple pages in a single report. Customer wants to move re-order the pages in the report.
4 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

Pull all columns from vendor billing and allow custom dimensions based on field

Currently, the Transaction Type and Seller Name columns are not being ingested by Cloudability from the BQ table, as these columns were newly introduced by GCP. Having these columns will simplify reporting significantly, as all marketplace items c...

We need to get savings ($ number) details for each AKS cluster

We need to get savings ($ number) details for each AKS cluster, currently we are able to create dashboards for all/each cluster with saving details but we are unable to download saving number for individual AKS cluster. Please create dashboard to ...