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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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View and download the SUM/AVG of Pod's CPU/Memory usage based on K8s Namespace

The customer is checking the usage by Kubernetes namespace using "kubectl top pod -n namespace" and said that this function is essential. And they want to download the result of the command as an excel file, etc. They request that the following fu...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

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

IBM Tivoli Monitoring (Webstart Client) should support OpenJDK

Currently IBM Tivoli Monitoring (SP12/13) Webstart Client only supports Java 1.8. It should support OpenJDK in future releases.To superseed Java 1.8 by OpenJDK is a strategic issue in our company. BR Andrea
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

Provide basic entity information in tabular format for VM group scope

As a large enterprise with almost 800 active-active groups consisting of over 6000 VMs, we frequently find ourselves in need of a flat-view pane of basic VM information for all members of any one group. At the least, for example, we'd like to see ...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

For the MQ Channel Status metric in Instana dashboard widget, there is no filter option for channel status

To check the MQ Channel Status for the channels with erroneous status codes
8 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

From a VM object at VM level, see all groups it's a part of

I have a VM that I'm trying to test policies on. It is also part of another policy that has a very large subset of scoped vms, named with a sequence of letters and numbers. It's not easy to determine which group it is in, and remove it from that g...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

The Cost Savings Per Month field which is available in downloads - add it to the API

Large customers use the API to blend this data with Portfolio Management Data - the cost savings is a KEY prioritization parameter to get actions taken.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Clarified verbiage for unsubmitted changes

Currently, when we indicate that there are unsubmitted changes for a Cost Object, we are essentially showing all CO's that are in "In Progress" status, whether or not there have actually been any changes in the CO. The verbiage of "unsubmitted cha...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Identify environment Cloudability email generated from

Case #TS017536579 - Cloudability currently can't indicate on generated email reports, what environment it is coming from. If customer has sandbox and production, can't tell what environment report was generated from.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

All configuration items involving Alerts should allow the usage of all fields from the Alert schema including custom fields

AIOps enables the extension of the alert schema with custom fields and these should be able to be used in the configuration of the system. This would include: In the "Add Menu Item" dialogue All fields should show in the list of columns selectable...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review