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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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Ability to report and filter on Commitment type (All Upfront, Partial Upfront, No Upfront)+

We would be able to compare in reports total cost and how the different commitment types impact the savings. Plus be able to filter out all upfront costs from Amortized costs.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Individual WIP Limit per Portfolio

We would like to have the option to define different WIP limit for Kanbans per Portfolio (in our case this concerns the Portfolio Kanban) Currently, this can be set/ changed via Limit Tab in the Kanban View Setup, but it is a per-board fixed board...

Create New Role for Portfolio Admins

We would like to have a new role established that is able to maintain their portfolio(s) just like an admin role, but limited to their assigned portfolio. This role should help with decentralized administration of portfolio(s). This new role is on...
3 days ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review

User cards should be exportable 'as is' so we can control what is seen when another user downloads. We can control what is see via lists or on the User screen, but not the export.

Currently we have fields that we are only allowing Admins to see in views and screens, but a user can still see those fields if they export one of the views that have 'User' as a card. This is information that we would like to keep hidden on expor...
3 days ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Submitted

Exclude No action recommendations

When we look at data in the rightsizing panel we often see recommendation with the recommendation 'no action' (in all scenario's whether we are using 10/30 days and on-demand/effective rate. We like to filter out this data from the rightsizing pre...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Exclude traces from Java´s endpoints.

Optimizing data ingestion in Instana, customer needs to exclude tracing from Java´s endpoint,
4 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Would like Dashboards and Application perspective to be able to use dark mode

We have TV displays that show Infrastructure (which will show dark mode of browser) but the Dashboard and Application does not and is bright white. See additional details
5 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

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 ...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection / Other 0 Under review

1. Incorporate CSV Attachments in Email Reports & 2. Ensure Full Feature Parity Between Data Insight and NMS Reports

Incorporate CSV Attachments in Email ReportsIntroduce the option to include raw data in CSV format as an attachment when generating and sending email reports through Data Insight. This feature is already available in NMS (vPAS) but is currently ab...
29 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Enable a mobile application to extend monitoring and observability functions beyond the desktop.

Clients want to view their applications and infrastructure from their smartphones on Android or iOS.
24 days ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Submitted