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Add Release marker end timestamp

I can create and update a release marker and it has a timestamp for start and last-updated. Is it possible to express a time range, to show up a long deployment? At the moment, our pipelines create a release marker, after all pods in a rolling upd...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Common 0 Future consideration

Editable Tables changes: Allow access to Consolidated Edit Log in TBM Studio

For Costing Essentials, Client requested to understand all changes happening in Workbench, but the only way to do this today is to export from every table, every day the changes and import the output in a new table in TBM Studio, which is a very h...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Add regular expressions feature for service naming

Many of our customers use CMDB that will require them to adjust default service names. Our service naming approach requires them to use environment variables like INSTANA_SERVICE_NAME, INSTANA_PROCESS_NAME, HTTP Headers etc… In almost every case i...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 4 Future consideration

Infrastructure Map too slow

Our Instana has a lot of agents and the Infrastructure Map is not usable. It takes ages to load. We would like to have a solution to this problem, what about having a filter which let us show less agents in the Infrastructure Map? With such a filt...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Common 6 Future consideration

Calc Explorer Enhancement

Calc Explorer Enhancement - During a recent presentation from Apptio I was shown this new feature, and it is great but I queried if we can have previous periods viewable at the same time, maybe a trend in the UI labels? Increase/decrease numbers? ...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Ability to investigate Active Sessions

Whenever Instana shows high Active Sessions for a particular war file, there is no way to investigate high Active Sessions. Please add more details about active sessions to find how and who created these sessions (some basic information for who c...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Excel extract for active report with tabular configurations

We have many reports that are using tabs to separate components of the report. In our use case, we have a single report (parent report) that is comprised of many tabs (child reports). We need the ability to download an individual tab in excel/csv ...
almost 3 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Mark "downstream" services accordingly and filter them in the dashboard

Once you select "Automatically include Downstream Services in Applications" it would be interesting to: (1) See the "downstream services" marked as such in the "services" list and dependancy map etc. (2) Have an ability to turn on/off the downstr...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Common 0 Future consideration

To display count of selected documents at the time of Check In / Revert Changes

This helps apptio users to be more cautious of what data been checking in and can validate between expected enhancements to actual work to avoid unnecessary check in's / revertion.  This applies to TBM Studio where users shall have option to...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Properly validate formula in pipeline step

Currently if you have this formula =If(value< 99999, use-this, use-that) If use-this or use-that are invalid syntactically (for example do not exist) then we expect an error to be shown. However, if *current* data does not exercise one path the...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration