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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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In Rightsizing ROI, add capability to add business dimensions to rightsizing filters.

Currently in Optimization > Rightsizing ROI, the existing [+ Add Filter] menu lists a very limited set of dimensions for use.Filters do not match those available in Optimization > Rightsizing
about 3 hours ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Submitted

Ability to add additional Columns to Rightsizing endpoints

Each client has unique custom tags and mappings. When creating new reports using data from Cloudability (Cldy) in TBM Studio, we often encounter mapping gaps and limitations due to restrictions on adding Resource IDs in Studio. For example, while ...
about 4 hours ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Cloudability support Idle Load Balancer in Rightsizing service or in reporting

Today, there isn't a way to get this info of Idle load balancers in Cloudabiltiy the only way to do so, is by tagging resources in AWS to reflect in Cloudability.THis is not good for our organization' as we manage several AWS payer accounts with d...
about 5 hours ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Submitted

Alert for IIS Worker Pool/Application Pool Down

Why is it useful? To ensure reduce MTTR of IIS application downtime. Who would benefit from it? SREs and IT teams managing IIS-hosted applications. How should it work? Automatically trigger alerts when an IIS Worker/Application Pool stops or goes ...
about 12 hours ago in Instana / .NET 0 Submitted

Would like to give user(s) access to their own project in TBM Studio without also giving them access to the main Cost Transparency project.

Users in other areas of the business will be able to utilize Apptio without gaining access to confidential data or compromising the integrity of another user's project or the main CT project. It will help drive exposure and expansion of the applic...
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Ability to pull usage metrics from Cloudability into TBM Studio

Currently we can only pull cost into studio. Would would like to be able to pull other metrics such as vCPU Hours.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Configure custom dashboards with co-editors but without read-access for everyone

Currently for any custom dashboard I can configure whether it should be "private" or "public" (see attached screenshot). If I want to define co-editors, I only can use the "public" option, with that I also must make the dashboard visible for every...
3 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

ENCRYPTED PASSWORD SECURITY IN DB2 METRICS MONITORING

We were trying to setup remote DB2 monitoring, however connection is failing. Our DB2 admin told us, he is using options securityMechanism=7;encryptionAlgorithm=2 when connecting to that DB2 using jdbc. By my understanding that really means User I...
28 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

As a consumer of Turbonomic I would like to have a fully deployable version of the OVA that is available on the Red Hat operating system, so that I can comply with enterprise standards as Rocky Linux is not authorized for deployment.

Corporate and Business customers that have standardized on Red Hat Linux Reduces complexity of the systems I will have to support Streamlines processes when using a known and already approved OS

Configure custom management port for Rabbit MQ sensor

During a POC with a customer to observe Cloud pak for Data, found that the Rabbit MQ sensor doesn't allow anything other than default of 15672 as management port. Should allow custom port so that the products which use custom port can show more value
4 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted