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Conditional or Correlated Alert Logic in Instana (e.g., “Alert on X unless Y is high”)

We would like to have the ability to define conditional or correlated alert logic in Instana. For example, we need to trigger an alert when there are too many 404 responses on a specific endpoint, but only if the number of login requests is not hi...
21 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Cloning of Application Perspectives

We are in the process of creating Application Perspectives based on the namespaces in the cluster. Each cluster has 100's of namespaces and each namespaces has services ranging from 5-15. We are creating application perspectives at a service level...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Editable Tables: auto-size the 'Find' pop-up window when searching for values in a drop-down list

When a user uses the 'Find' option in a drop-down selection of an Editable table, the size of the pop-up window is fixed. It would be great if this could be auto-sized based on the number of columns available to give users a better experience. See...
7 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Subscribe to click-through report instead of base report

We have a base report that has two drill down (click-through) reports, so the structure goes: Cloud Spend Analysis Report (Base) Category report Subcategory Report A user can select a category from the base report to then navigate to the category ...
7 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 1 Submitted

Process monitoring dashboard

We are using IBM ELM suite of applications on distributed environment and we have around 19 different applications running currently on our environment. We want to monitor that all our process on production are up and running fine. Hence we wanted...
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Allow admins to create popup for users to see and use to provide feedback when they log into Apptio

We have hundreds of Apptio users in our organisation and are interested in getting their feedback about their experience using Apptio however it is not practical to reach out to all of them individually. It would be great if we could create up a p...
8 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Under review

Dark Mode

Instana needs a dark theme for the browser.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Planned for future release

Add the ability to 'View in Analyze' from widgets in custom dashboards.

When you create custom dashboard, there is no way to 'View in Analyze' when you identify a problem without leaving the dashboard completely. In a custom dashboard, your only options are to 'Zoom to time range' and 'Highlight on all charts'. I have...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Need an option in Instana to save snapshots of a particular application perspective locally and compare them later with another snapshot or live one.

We need to have a option for saving a snapshots of particular application perspective in instana, save it in local. Later compare with another snapshot or the live one. Eg: We have an application perspective created as "xyz" & we have selected...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Function (“Popup Message”) to inform users about maintenance work or updates

We recently had the problem that incorrect values/numbers were displayed to users in the reports (CT) due to an upload error. In this case, we unfortunately had no way of informing the users in Apptio that incorrect values currently exist (and tha...
12 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 2 Not under consideration