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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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Sync Team Iterations (Sprints) in Date order

Ideally, the sprints that are auto-generated should sync back to Jira in the correct order. Instead, we put undue inconvenience of having to rearrange all the sprints after they are sync'd to Jira. This is not a good user experience.
2 months ago in Targetprocess / ADO/JIRA Integration 0 Under review

Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solutio...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Kafka topic lag data is unusable in its current state

The way that kafka topic lag data is represented within Instana makes it virtually unusable. The reason is that each topic is listed independently. There is no way to apply general rules to the data. For example, if I try to create an Event agains...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

AIOps license utilisation in UI

Customers need to see the AIOps license utilisation, number of managed devices, client devices, and logs processed in GB. This will help customer for budgeting next yeat license purchase.
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Totals, sub-totals, summaries for cards on views

Calculate and show totals, subtotals across filtered cards Show totals for columns in list views (in headers or footers) Show totals for cells, for column/row headers in board views Use them to summarize total effort, time spent/remain, co...
almost 5 years ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

View Only for Plans in New Status

As a TBMA I would like the ability to be able to provide select users with a role that would allow them View Only access to plans that are in New Status.    I will know this is complete when a Cost Center Owner or person in a specially d...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Adding metrics in Instana to monitor Transform Object for elastic search

Transform Object is one of the key components in elastic search. Currently Instana does not have any capability to monitor transform object.
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Place event id in alert header

Currently there is no id in email alert header. Please make e.g. event id part of email alert header to support automated and human processing
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Automating zero-value row removal to enhance efficiency & accuracy in forecast & budget plans in ITP

Requesting an enhancement to IT Planning (ITP) to improve efficiency and accuracy by automating the removal of zero-value rows from annual forecast plans and budget plans. The current manual process, conducted twice per year, presents opportunitie...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Dashboard Customization

Currently, Dashboard views allow you to drag and drop lists onto it.  If two are dropped on the same lane they will appear next to each other, however user would like to change the width instead of it being even.
over 2 years ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review