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Please include Custom date range in the custom metric timeline

Currently the custom metric in apptioBI has only standard timelines like : "this week", "last week", etc.. and the only option of customization is inherit date from visualization, but when we use multiple custom metrics in the report for different...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Integration into CMDB

ideally, Instana should have an integration with CMDB where information about these technologies and hosts are maintained. It will be efficient if Instana can read the CMDB so we can scope internal classifications for monitoring or alerting (Dynam...
20 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Publish a list of the open source products and versions.

We need to be able to easily track what version underlying open source products are being used in the latest Instana releases (Cassandra, etc) so we can make sure we are using versions approved by our firm. Please add a page to the Instana documen...
21 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Allow the NMS to purge SNMP devices either missing at the SNMP agent (packet error on polling that OID) or missing completely (no response to TCP packets)

As per title, the cluster settings call for set up parameters that take care handling operative or missing objects. However, this should also allow for the removal of any objects with a SNMP Operational or Administrative Status other than down per...
21 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Custom Dashborads - Axis and Widget legend display

Hi team, please allow the possibility to format the y-Axis, so it displays more values (not just the upper value). Regarding the Legends, in some cases they are displayed perfectly, but sometimes, when there are many metrics displayed, or few metr...
21 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Format improvement on PDF export of custom dashboard widget

Hi team, please consider including more information within the axes when a custom dashboard is exported. This is a key missing part in order to understand the graphs being exported, and right now we cannot see any values displayed, which makes it ...
21 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Enable Apptio BI Report Subscriptions for Non-Cloudability Users

Currently, only Cloudability users can subscribe to Apptio BI reports. However, there are scenarios where customers want to include members of their management or leadership teams, who are not Cloudability users and do not wish to become users, in...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

More flexibility with widget placement and shapes and sizing in dashboards to decrease excess of gray space visible to the dasboard.

I am currently working on customizing the layout of my Cloudability dashboard and am attempting to resize several widgets to eliminate the excess gray space visible on my dashboard. However, I’ve noticed that the widgets tend to snap into predefin...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

I would like to choose the alignments of the column headings and the column data in widgets within Cloudability.

I am working on a widget I created in my dashboard on Cloudability. The widget I created is a table and it has different columns on there and I would like to choose the alignments of the column headings and the column data. It would look neater if...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Can we add text blocks to Maps in DI (you can in reports as a widget, but not the Maps section)

User is having issues with viewing the maps would love to have this feature added in maps
26 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration