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Set Session Settings for User Groups

The option to set "User session timeout" and "Idle session timeout" (in Settings - Security Access - Authentication - Session Timeouts - Session Settings) in the Instana SaaS backend should be allowed to be set for groups of users, rather than for...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Commitment Management 2.0 for Azure Commitment Portfolio

The commitment portfolio functionality in AWS and GCP is great. I would like to see this supported in Azure.
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Planned for future release

Ability to configure or override default retention period for Instana backend data dabases for traces/metrics data.

Hi Team, Current Installation Type: We have installed custom edition of Instana, and we have below datastores installed in our AWS EKS cluster. These backend datastores are using EBS volume. Day by day the data volumes are keep on increasing, and ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Planned for future release

SHA-256 or greater support for trapv3 on SevOne

Security requirement to have SHA-256 or greater for SevOne trapv3, currently SHA-1 has been identified is being weak auth protocol
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Pass LDAP groups/roles through concert-hub to Concert Workflow roles

Today only Admin and User role is passed on to Concert Workflows these are mapped to admin or everyone role. Users teams/roles are typically defined as groups/roles in a cooperate directory (LDAP), to prevent managing them in each and every tool. ...
8 months ago in Concert 1 Submitted

Formula similiar to today() in TBM Studio

Today there is no way for us to calculate the time remaining on a contract in relation to the current date. Using the currentdate() function causes confusion as it is dependent on the date picker. It also does not accurately reflect the time remai...
6 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Enable User Impersonation Feature in TargetProcess

Current Limitation: TargetProcess does not currently offer a way for administrators to impersonate or assume the view of another user. This limits the ability to effectively troubleshoot user-specific issues or validate permission-based configurat...
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Other 2 Under review

Allow customization of Split and Clone processes

We have validation rules (notably one preventing Teams from being manually assigned to Features) that cause Split and Clone functions to fail. Ideally, we should be able to configure these function so that they do not run afoul of our validation r...
8 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Under review

Automatically ingest all cloud tags from AWS/Azure into Cloudability and use them as-is without creating Cloudability Dimensions manually.

The customer would like Cloudability to automatically ingest and expose all AWS and Azure tags for reporting and analysis without requiring manual mapping or configuration. With thousands of cloud resources and frequently changing tags, maintainin...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Rightsizing preference option for RDS , EBS and rest of the services

Currently we have right sizing preferences option for Compute in Cloudability, we want similar option for RDS,EBS,GPD and other services supported in rightsizing. Example: we don't want the tool to recommend older gen recommendations for RDS(<m...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration