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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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List of events that triggered alerts

It would be beneficial to be able to retrieve a list of all events that have triggered alerts within a specified time frame. Currently, there is no direct way to filter alerts based on which ones were triggered by what events. Adding this fe...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Not under consideration

Concurrent Sessions Enabled

Background: Concurrent session enabled refers to a feature or setting within an application or system that allows a user to be logged in and active from multiple devices or locations simultaneously. In other words, a user can have multiple concurr...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Adding metrics in Instana to monitor Transform Object for elastic search

Transform Object is one of the key components in elastic search. Currently Instana does not have any capability to monitor transform object.
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

At this time instana agent can not collect metrics from Postgresql Patroni cluster. I think this is good idea for implementation.

Patroni is an open-source tool designed for managing PostgreSQL high-availability (HA) clusters. It ensures that the database is always available by orchestrating failovers and managing replication among the nodes. To maintain a robust and reliabl...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Set time zone for Topology viewer

In the event viewer of NOI each user can set the time zone and all timestamps in the eventviewer are using this setting. It is independent of the local browser settings. The advantage for enterprises, which have employees in different timezones ar...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Schedule DataLink connectors by working days

Many of our customers manage the upload of the files in based on the working days, for example actuals are available on the 6th working day of the month Datalink allows this to be done only based on days and not working days, which can be affected...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Option to Export as a .CSV out of TBM Studio

As an admin, I export data directly out of TBM Studio for our users to review and upload themselves into IT Planning. As the default file type when exporting out of TBM Studio is .xslx and the required file type to import into IT Planning is .csv,...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Sound notification when Datalink connector finishes running

As a Datalink Admin or Apptio Admin, I'd like the ability to opt-in to a sound notification that's triggered when a Datalink connector status resolves (either Success or Failed). I'll know it's complete when I run a connector from Datalink, then h...
11 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

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...
6 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 ...
6 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Future consideration