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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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Clear Filter Buttom/functionality in reports

Dear TBMAs. Dear Apptio SE Team We have several reports with many columns and when filtering by several columns and we want to remove all the filters at the same time it is not possible and sometimes a filter remains active. We believe that a func...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Allow Instana to perform deep monitoring of OpenShift

We recently had an issue in our OpenShift cluster where we were unable to authenticate against our AD server because the certificates on the AD server had expired. I would have expected that Instana was able to monitor OpenShift and alert us to th...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Monitoring of AWS MSK in Topics Level Metrics

Instana can currently monitor AWS MSK in the cluster and broker level of metrics only. To improve the AWS MSK monitoring quality, additional metrics in topics level with the following functions will definitely useful and helpful for the MSK opera...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

We need an alternative to the Hashicorp vault

I continue to run into more customers that demand a vault other than Hashicorp as a way to securely store credentials for the configuration.yaml file. Previously, I opened this idea, but it was rejected: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INSTANA-I-271 I...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Needs more information

Allow a user to set min/max number of nodes per any node pool in k8s

Long term: have a definition of a machineset/node group/node pool configuration that a user can define min/max number in terms of action generation and execution - A MachineSet (or any Node Group) could have a policy to control horizontal scaling ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Planned for future release

No tags for empty vm specs

When we export App service plan Delete actions, We noticed that tags not appear, they're not there and would love to see them included. They only appear to be missing in Delete actions for VM spec.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Future consideration

View Only for Plans in New Status

As a TBMA I would like the ability to be able to provide select users with a role that would allow them View Only access to plans that are in New Status.    I will know this is complete when a Cost Center Owner or person in a specially d...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Automating zero-value row removal to enhance efficiency & accuracy in forecast & budget plans in ITP

Requesting an enhancement to IT Planning (ITP) to improve efficiency and accuracy by automating the removal of zero-value rows from annual forecast plans and budget plans. The current manual process, conducted twice per year, presents opportunitie...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Update Java clients such as Administrator GUI to enable authentication with ObjectServer using user account passwords with more than 30 characters.

FixPack 24 enabled non-java based clients to utilize passwords having more than 30 characters when authenticating with an ObjectServer. This is great for probes/gateways however it is preferred to enable the java-based clients (e.g. Administrator)...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Response Time For User Actions

We are using Instana to monitor for our web application availability, performances etc. We would like to have a way to get the processing time or response time for each user actions done on the application. For example: When the user login to the ...
3 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review