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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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1yr performance graphs

Expand time range for the largest selectable timespan to one year in the user interface. This allows customer's operations team to see long term performance and capacity trends. The yearly graph should have 365 daily datapoints which will speed th...
11 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Ensure stacked bar charts can be limited to show set # of elements on the axis, but no limit on the stacking

Right now we either have the option to show an inaccurate chart limited by the "# of rows" feature, or show ALL rows which makes too much data visually available in the chart. These are not good options and we should be able to just show a stacked...
12 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Resource Inventory Statistical Filtering Needs to Include Views and standard filters into consideration

Currently, applying a view or standard filters to the results of the Statistical Filtering will only display results if an object is within the results applied at the Statistical Filtering. This feature also needs to be able to apply a view or sta...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Meta data field of 'project_labels' not available for CLDY(CDI) to CT integration

We are able to upload the column named 'project_labels' using the Google Cloud Platform Connector on Datalink Classic. The meta data field however from GCP of 'project_labels' is not available for CLDY(CDI) to CT integration in FDM. Business reaso...
12 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Filtering Snowflake smart alerts by database username or account

We are trying to create smart alerts to get alerts when queries are taking longer than a specific threshold. While creating the alert we are trying to filter by only specific snowflake usernames/account.
12 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

Request the implementation of visibility for the AccountingOrigin value within Instana

We would like to request the ACE Instana sensor to collect the Accounting Origin and for it to be deployed with ACE message flow stats. We have multiple MLP implementations that share a single message flow. Currently, we populate the Accounting Or...
13 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 2 Submitted

Consolidate Reference Data table entries into one entry via Change Identifiers or similar new process

As a Planning/Finance Administrator, I would like Planning (the tool) to to find and replace and, where appropriate, consolidate indicated identifier for all plans across time, regardless of whether the plan is open or closed. The current Change I...
13 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Modify Try-Catch node to catch all errors.

At this time, Try-Catch-Throw blocks do not capture all errors, and instead cause the workflow to stop. This may be due to JS's handling of errors, but the client would like to be able catch errors from database query blocks and handle them, even ...
13 days ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Submitted

Trigger an email to remind customers that their Single Sign On (SSO) Certificate needs to be refreshed within Frontdoor.

Apptio SSO Certificates are now refreshed by the Customer, self served via Domain Management within Access Administration on Frontdoor. This refresh needs to take place annually and if not completed in time the customers end users will no longer b...
14 days ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

COPA OA: Flexible dashboarding for metric correlation needed

Need ability to study correlated metrics. For example, how is the CPU and disk usage behaving with user load? How is garbage collection affecting response times? Comparison of different metrics on the fly is available in ITCAM that is not availabl...
14 days ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Submitted