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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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Trigger Report Email Subscriptions by Push to Production

I love the new feature to allow email subscriptions for reports in ApptioOne. I think it would be beneficial to have a trigger the email subscription by a push to production occurring. i.e. data in production has been updated so I want to let my e...
5 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

ApptioScript On Save of Editable Table

Would love to be able add ApptioScript on editable tables to run "on save" (rather than on load, on row add, on duplication, or on cell edit). This would allow the script to run when users press the save button on an editable table vs. when it is ...
5 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 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

Provide user notification of unsupported cloud instance type

As CSPs release new instance types and the customer deploys them to their environment before Turbo has implemented support, notify the user of the unsupported instance types. This will ensure that the user knows that action generation is suppresse...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 4 Future consideration

Gather Serilog data from serilog sink

Serilog uses sinks for writing log events to storage in various formats. Add option for instana to collect Serilog logs with sink to compete with Dynatrace, datadog and New Relic that do this today. This is a list of competitors that already have ...
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

Signed Requests for SAML SSO

Hello, I am requesting with this IBM Idea the option to enable signed request for the SSO configuration. Our IDP has the requirement to only handle signed requests because of security purposes. Right now we got an exception to use unsigned request...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Planned for future release

Self-hosted synthetic pop deployment via stanctl - "stanctl pop up"

Implement`stanctl pop up` including k3s installation.
5 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Planned for future release

Add support of TSRM Gateway for Maximo for IT

Maximo for IT is the successor of the current version of IBM Control Desk and needs to be supported with the TRSM GW which allows incident creation and synchronization. The Target Maximo for IT minimum version is 8.1.4 (as part of MAS/Maximo Proce...
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Visual Encoding: apply color to 1st, 2nd and 4th levels / rows / lanes of hierarchy in Lists

As for now only cards are colored. It would be useful to color 1st and 2nd level hierarchy as well.
over 9 years ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

we want to see the application pools as individuals applications

we dont want to see application pools, because we cannot make dashboards of the ones that are inside the application pool.
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration