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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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Change the CIT Scanner installation path of the Agent on Windows machines

My customer has correctly installed an Agent 9.5.0.7 on a Windows 2016/2019 machine. After receiving error notifications for unavailable resource, they realized that the Scanner installed for the Agent had been deleted. Deepening the problem they ...
2 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Request for Enhancement in Apptio BI Reporting Based on CFP Plan

We would like the ability in Apptio BI to create a calculated metric—similar to what is available in the CFP plan—that combines Year-to-Date (YTD) actuals with forecast data. For example, if we are in June, the YTD cost calculation should include ...
about 21 hours ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Instana SaaS must support Dual(Multiple) SSO in the same tenant as Dynatrace is supporting now.

My customer is using Dynatrace that supports Dual SSO, so they are using SAML via Okta for SSO of regular employees and Azure SaaS AD for SSO of partner employees both are having different email domains.However, I got answered from IBM Support tha...
5 days ago in Instana / Observability of AI 0 Submitted

Support Action Generation for GCP Managed Instance Groups (MIGs) in Turbonomic

Currently, Turbonomic does not generate actions for virtual machines (VMs) that are part of a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Managed Instance Group (MIG), unless a specific probe property is manually enabled (gcp.mig.vm.action.enabled). Even when ena...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 9

Farmacias Guadalajara is requesting to extend the observability of additional metrics for Informix DB that will complement the current sensor funcionality..

Farmacias Guadalajara has hundreds of branches distributed across Mexican territory. All the transactions generated on each branch are processed by Informix central databases, so it is critical to monitor the full health of Informix technology. We...
7 days ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Submitted

Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
22 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

I need to be able to associate a ticket with a certificate

I create a workflow to open a ticket in my unsupported (by Concert) ticketing system. I create an automation which runs that workflow when certificates are ingested by Concert. I successfully create a ticket, but I can't tell Concert about that ti...
about 8 hours ago in Concert 0 Submitted

To include extra custom slots in logfile agent as in existing version (v6.3 Fixpack7)as it has only 10 custom slots

To include extra custom slots in logfile agent as in existing version (v6.3 Fixpack7)as it has only 10 custom slots
about 13 hours ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Option to share reports/link with utilization ,Performance data & Rightsize recommendation from Rightsizing page

Helps to share detailed Recommendation reports directly to customer without much efforts
about 15 hours ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted