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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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Status: Email of Status with Plan Name

looking for the feature to send the email with plan name any plan is submitted and opened and approved by CC owner, Project owner and Department owner. 
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Having a scroll bar, pinned feature, reorder tabs in TBM studio

Our admin team would like the ability to have a scroll feature, pinned feature, and the ability to reorder table tabs added to the bottom of TBM studio.  When performing configuration or troubleshooting, or data loading, the amount of tabs ne...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Perform Sandbox Refresh

As an admin, I would like the ability to perform a sandbox refresh.  We refresh our sandbox on a monthly basis, and it would be helpful if there were an option for the admin team to go in and schedule the refresh on our own as opposed to open...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Publishing only select reference data items to open forecasts

As an admin, we regularly update our IT Planning reference data. In some instances, there are times when the updates are unable to be published into an open plan because certain reference data items have changed that are restricted from being publ...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

IT Planning Undo Button

Our users have requested the ability to have an undo function available to them when making edits in the contract and labor tabs.  This would allow them to be able to revert any changes that were made incorrectly without having to remember th...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Custom Dashboard Traffic light widget

We're using the custom dashboards for a while now, and we are missing some customization features like a traffic light Widget.That's why we use Instana Custom Dashboards for simple dashboards and Grafana for dashboards, that need to be more meanin...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Infrastructure 11

Handle http status code 0 not as error

Envoy is becoming a popular reverse proxy in the cloud native space. Although it is supported by Instana for monitoring and tracing, we found one case where traces are marked as erroneous, but should not be: Client disconnects. When a client close...
about 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 0 Future consideration

API - Kubernetes Pod Memory/CPU Usage

The catalog API call for kubernetes pod metrics (/api/infrastructure-monitoring/catalog/metrics/kubernetesPod) got me the following output: "metricId":"cpuRequests" "metricId":"memoryLimits" "metricId":"container_count" "metricId":"memoryRe...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Future consideration

NFS share observability metrics

The customer is currently utilizing NFS shares for diverse applications, including the active-passive availability of their IT systems. They have expressed an interest in integrating the Instana observability platform to monitor their NFS shares e...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Add the tenant unit names in the short URLs

Currently, the short URL contains the base URL for all tenant units in the customer’s environment. The customer would like to configure different short URLs for different tenant units. Thanks.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration