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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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Add customer branding to the User Interface

The idea is to allow configuration of custom logo and theme colors across the UI (and alerts like Email). Since Instana has a wide range capabilitiles, some customers use Instana as a stand-alone tool without other dashboarding solutions. The UI b...
about 18 hours ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Allow reports to add a Valuestream custom quick filter for the Epic entity

Allow reports to add a Valuestream custom quick filter for the Epic entity We currently need to display the per data and total budgets assigned to the Epic level via the parent valuestream.
3 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Submitted

Enhance Google Cloud Storage (GCS) Integration Plugin to Support Uploading Files into Specific Bucket Folders

Currently, the Google Cloud Storage integration plugin (version 10.2.0.04) successfully uploads files directly to the root level of a specified GCS bucket. However, it lacks the capability to upload files into a specific folder (or prefix/subdirec...
3 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Enable the line breaks and wrap text options in report columns

In TargetProcess, text fields such as comments are often constrained by column width, leading to incomplete visibility of the data. This limitation hampers the ability to present comprehensive insights, especially at the executive level. To addres...
3 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Submitted

Ticker or Flash page to announce unplanned downtime

There have been two zone-wide Apptio downtimes since Jan 2025. Both instances were long in duration, lasting more than 10 hours and it became a major problem for us fielding questions from users and our management teams. And the tool does not let ...
3 days ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Monitor active jobs

There's a parameter inactiveJobs which checks for specific non-running jobs, but my customer would like to check also for specific running jobs, in the scenario where jobs are running that should not be running. We opened case TS018898330 and got ...
4 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Can coloured bar charts have the same colour per dimension for each widget?

Useful for comparing costs across widgets.
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Include "Savings Plan Negation" but exclude "Contractual Credits" under Credits

The Credits include "Savings Plan Negation" and "Contractual Credits". We need to include "Savings Plan Negation" but exclude "Contractual Credits" in order to obtain accurate forecasts. Please add more granularity for the type of Credits
4 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Request for HTTP Communication Support in Instana SaaS

Some customers only allow HTTP communication to monitor all outbound traffic from their environment. Currently, on-premises deployments support both HTTP and HTTPS configurations, but SaaS deployments only allow communication over HTTPS. We kindly...
4 days ago in Instana / Agent 3 Submitted

Option to evaluate Cost Impact without considering commitments (only based on-demand rate)

When scaling VM, Cost Impact is impacted by discount coverages. They may vary, especially Savings Plan allocation are unpredictible and Reservations behavior are also very complex to predict.Then it makes sense to determine the Cost Impact only us...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted