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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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Instana to support calls to ODBC driver from GO code

In our shop we have Db2 on z/OS, and we have many direct access to Db2z from distributed world via DDF from ODBC driver (not JDBC), which is called from an application written in GO. We need Instana to support this path as currently it does not su...
about 12 hours ago in Instana / Go 0 Submitted

Add quota management information and recommendations - including reductions

Quota management and related recommendations, which is very important to the client since they determine the built capacity, and they see potential there to manage inefficiencies that the tool currently couldn't exploit. Please consider the possib...
about 10 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / Policies 0 Under review

Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
about 12 hours ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Parking policies - Needs the ability to show the selected Accounts and Resource Groups when going into Edit

When a Parking policy has been created and a user wants to go in and edit the policy, or even check what has been selected, if there are any significant numbers of accounts or resource groups then it is a laborious task to have to search through t...
about 3 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

A Turbo Feature that allows the export and import of the Turbo configuration, such as policies, groups, and targets.

The Turbonomic policies, groups, and target settings are assets of our customer, created based on their business requirements, use cases, and resource management experiences. There should be a way for them to export these settings as backups. Thes...
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Submitted

SLO Horizontal Scalability with Datadog

Datadog's 2024 revenue was 2.6B USD against 1.6B USD from Dynatrace. It's clear Datadog's growth and the relevance. IBM advertise the SLO horizontal scaling which is a great way to deliver true elasticity, but today we only work with Instana and D...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

Ability to remove default date range from ApptioBI Report

Problem:Right now if an admin or report owner sets a default date range on an ApptioBI report in the global date range selector, there is no way to return to a state where a default date range is not set for that report. You can only update what t...
15 minutes ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Allow sorting and Top X result limits in ApptioBI stacked column graphs with two dimensions to be determined by total column measure height for the first dimension

The same concept applies to stacked bar graphs. Problem: Right now the sorting and Top X results limit are determined by the measure value for the the intersection of Dimension 1 and Dimension 2. This leads to odd sorting in the graph where the ta...
24 minutes ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Need to automatically detect and bypass older and unsupported .NET applications

We are deploying the Agent into a Windows .NET environment. The server has a mixture of older IIS Hosted .NET 4.0 applications, .NET 4.5 and newer, and .NET core applications. Instana is attempting to auto-instrument the .NET 4.0 applications and ...
about 1 hour ago in Instana / .NET 0 Submitted

Do not allow report users to select more alternative dimensions than are supported by a visual

Problem: Right now if you configure a graph visual such as a stacked bar with a primary dimension and multiple alternate dimensions the alternate dimension menu the user interacts with is a multi-select in which the user can check the boxes beside...
about 1 hour ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted