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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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ITP – Custom Department Drop-Down

In my company we limit access to cost center of own responsibility. We have cost center managers with cost center reponsibilities in different Hierarchies. Those don't have no possibility to review all cost centers in their responsibility with Pla...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

With Infra Smart Alerts provide a way to prevent auto closure

Problem/use-case: We have a subset of alerts that are triggered based on problems that happen in an instant (1-shot) where the events are in good right away. Such Issues are for example triggered by a metric which only shows a short spike. Consequ...
3 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

file dependecies

Chiediamo che un job che ha come dipendenza l’attesa di un file NON deve scattare/partire appena il file viene creato (quindi ancora con la copia dei dati in corso) ma quando la copia è terminata e/o il file “chiuso dal processo di copia”
3 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

plugin transfer - replace file in another local path

Chiediamo se è possibile avere un opzione (un checkbox o altro) da selezionare se si volesse eseguire il replace del file che si desidera spostare su altro path nella macchina locale dell'ftp
3 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Needs more information

post action file transfer

Per ogni file trasferito tramite un job chiediamo che venga eseguito immediatamente la propria post action senza attendere il transfer di tutti i file del job.
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

iOs with Netfox library

We propose that Instana consider supporting the NetFox library for iOS applications. This would involve ensuring that Instana's monitoring capabilities can work seamlessly alongside NetFox without causing conflicts or errors in the application's o...
5 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

increase scope and usage visibility of Azure VM Reserved Instances

Currently Turbo recommends VI purchases at an Account/Subscription level. (it can also narrow in on Billing Families and Regions). Azure permits RIs to be limited to Enterprise, Management Group (that’s a collection of Subscriptions), Subscription...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Need periodic reports in different formats

Dear Colleagues, we have a constant demand from our customers regarding reporting capabilities. Please consider creating additional sharing option for custom dashboards. Something like periodic report, that generates a PDF (CSV, XLS, Plain text) f...
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Add poll_rate option for Apache HTTPd

Hi, Currently there is no poll_rate option in instana agent configuration for Apache HTTPd plugin (com.instana.plugin.httpd) and therefor instana agent requests server status page every 1 second. Can you please add poll_rate option so that we can ...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

Datalink: Ability to hover over a connector for pop-up screen with details about connector

It would be very helpful if I could hover over a Datalink connector and see a pop-up box with general information about how the connector is built. For example, what time period the connector is pulling from and pushing to, what project the connec...
10 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted