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Move tabs up when the tab scroll bar appears. Ensure the scroll bar doesn't cover part of the tab text.

why: the new functionality - Horizontal scroll bar for open Studio document tabs​ - is very helpful, but the scroll bar cuts off the bottom part of text. g, p,j,q,y all have their tails removed. Pricing looks like Pricino because the bottom part o...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Future consideration

Exclude unused objects from Cost modeled metric's Diagram view

As a TBMA, I would like to see only used/connected objects in the Diagram view of the Cost modeled metrics. Other views (eg Model Overview) of the metric already excluded unused/disconnected objects. Today, unused/disconnected objects appear in t...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

switch the data in custom dashboards by a specific value (e.g. Namespace)

We are using Instana to monitor our environment where systems are deployed per Namespace on OpenShift.We have a custom dashboard with the same content that summarizes the time series and scores for each Namespace.If we had the ability to switch da...
9 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / User Interface 1

Domain Management -> "API Keys Disabled" checkbox FAR too easy to click

There was an issue lodged by the customer that their Datalink Connections were all failing and they didn't know why. Upon Engineering investigation, it turned out that API keys had been disabled and working with the customer to identify how, user:...
9 months ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Enhance Planning Bulk Delete Functionality

Recommend enhancing the bulk delete functionality in Planning to add a button to the 'Other' tab that allows users to select all available rows. This would save time in that users would not have to either select all lines individually or scroll th...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Not under consideration

Environment label

Hi, We use different Instana backends in our organisation. Each Instana backend is responsible for an environment (DEV/ACC/PRD). It would be nice that we can add an indication of the environment (a label for example) in the top banner of Instana. ...
9 months ago in Instana / User Interface 2 Planned for future release

Update reference data permission

Requesting to have the permission to update reference data in an open plan to be a permission separated out from other admin capabilities. Use case is to have resource in Europe update the reference data earlier in the day than US resource on TBMO...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Bookmarking Cost Transparency Reports with User preference selections

Hello P&E team,  Would like to share a strong demand from our user's point of view where they would like to save or bookmark one of our customized reports in Cost Transparency on the selection they have made prior to saving the snapshot. ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 1 Functionality already exists

Avoid abnormal termination false positives during Helm deployment

Use-case: During HELM deployment the old pods are expected to be stopped with a SIGKILL. So the event Instana is raising is technically correct, but absolutely expected. This FR is about adding more logica to such K8s events and Instana events avo...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Dashboards with large timespans reduce the peaks and are less use-full

The "problem" I have is if you take a look as an example to the timings of the garbage-collection graph.I have here an app who does every 5 seconds a 300ms gc, if you are in the 10 minutes frame this is visible. I can go back 24 hours in this gran...
about 3 years ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration