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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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Show comparative daily figure

generally find it useful - but in February and March it is always going to show the wrong data as it is comparing days with different number of days. It would be more useful if the headline showed a comparative daily figure for the daily run rate ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection / Other 0 Under review

Generic Entity Types creation by native OpenTelemetry (OTEL) infrastructure data instead of Otel-Collector Entity

Instana currently supports a variety of entity types—including infrastructure entities (hosts, containers, Java processes) and trace-specific entities (services, endpoints, applications). While the Instana sensors offer powerful application monito...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Needs more information

Create view level permission for SavingsPlanFeatureFullAccess

Hi, Our team would find it very useful if we could have a view only alternative to the following role in order to assign a more granular version to our customers: SavingsPlanFeatureFullAccess
4 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) / User Management & Login 0 Needs more information

Display clients by username or computer name in Flow widget of SevOne DI instead of IP address

"Flow - Top Apps and Categories Detail" report is very nice.It is useful for me to find a user who most access the specific application by checking the "Top Apps > Top Clients" widget. But this widget displays clients by IP address. This is a b...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Make backend automations visible

We have run into a few instances where there are automations behind the scenes that affect entities in ways that are not desirable to the client.Often times these are feature toggles and we have been able to turn them off, but they are hard to tra...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 1 Under review

Enhance / Enable service flow map with metrics on service relation

Please Enable display of service metrics on service relation in Instana UI service flow map
4 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 3 Future consideration

Kubernetes Cluster data support for Cloud sustainability Dashboards in Cloudability

Multiple customers are using the Cloudability Sustainability Dashboard which is imperative to understand carbon emissions and other metrics. One of customers are willing to understand the sustainability data from a Kubernetes cluster data perspect...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Ability to remove final plans from the plan drop down and only have these available in the compare and summary compare area

Currently all the plans are available in the drop down but you can only edit new and open plans. it would be good if you could hide the final plans but have them available in the expense tab as a drop down and the summary/dashboard report as a com...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Not under consideration

Report exports should show business mapping names as column headers rather than reference IDs

When a business mapping field is used as a dimension in a report, the mapping name shown in the UI does not get passed through the exported report. Instead the column name would be something like 'category1'. This is really annoying and potentiall...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Ability to pull in credits from the Vendor

We've switched from CloudHealth to Cloudability because of some capabilities. However one thing we lost in the swap on platforms is the ability to show credits from the vendor. CloudHealth ingests this from AWS and Azure automatically, It would be...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted