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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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Adding Front Side Protocol to monitoring by Instana IBM DataPower sensor

Instana provides monitoring of Multi-Protocol Gateway. But we need to know the status of Front Side Protocol eg. HTTP Handler of the Gateway. Knowing the status (up/down) is very important. Please see attachment.
18 days ago in Instana / DataPower 0 Submitted

Compress and store all metrics per day

This functionality provides a correct and reliable comparison of current to historical data (not based on extrapolations). Preserve the results as compressed metrics for all collected data per day. Extract the relevant statistics: count, average, ...
19 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Datalink failures - More descriptive error messaging

When a Datalink connector/connection group fails it is sometimes difficult to identify why it failed. Most times, the error message contains "Unknown BIIT error" which does not give much detail as to why it failed. It would be great if the error m...
19 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Instana Dashboard Dark Mode

Our client has requested the addition of a dark mode feature to the Instana dashboard to improve usability and align with their needs. This feature would enhance accessibility for users with light sensitivity. It also reflects industry standards, ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Make user access granting process more straightforward

The process required for gaining access to Cloudability for the first time is overly complex, not intuitive and not what one would expect from a SaaS tool from a user perspective. In order to gain fully-fledged access, including to views permittin...
29 days ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Provide Ability to Control or Eliminate Product Update Pop-Ups

Not all users use the functionality that the popup refers to causing confusing. Privacy concerns around surveys or pop-ups requesting a response drive the desire to control who and when these pop-ups appears. Would like the ability to control whic...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Instana UI User Connection Management

Can we have the ability to manage our user connections to the UI? Reason is so that we can forcefully disconnect users in case of SOS and we don't want everyone to storm the Instana UI. We'd love to restrict access during emergencies quickly.
22 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Consider maximum utilization during POD startup in addition percentile value for the given observation period for memory limit scaling to prevent out-of-memory kills during POD startup

Some POD have a utilization peak during startup. The percentile-based approach may lead to not considering this peak or if the POD isn't restarted during the observation period this peak is not considered. Turbonomic may recommend to scale down th...

Allow api access to Apptio bi data sources for reporting

There is no API for Apptio BI at present. It would be very useful to be able to extract data from the datasources that can be reported on via the UI in Apptio BI. This would add value in at least these use cases 1) ability to programatically extra...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 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.
9 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Submitted