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Session Duration Tracking in Instana

Currently, Instana does not provide a way to determine the duration of a user session, either via the UI or API. This feature request proposes adding functionality to track and retrieve session duration, including the total time a user spends logg...
6 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Submitted

Support tracing of RMI calls in the same JVM.

Our information system rely a lot of on RMI calls between components ( EJB). To optmize those calls we have deployed multiple components in the same JVM. When a component A calls component B in the same JVM, INSTANA does not trace the call to B co...
6 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Whenever data export from the Cloudability bucket to the CCM bucket fails, customer should be receiving a notification /alert stating the same

Whenever data export from the Cloudability bucket to the CCM bucket fails, customer should be receiving a notification /alert stating the same. This will help them to communicate wioth their stakeholders that there will be discrepancy in cloud num...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Submitted

Customer requesting a data validation email if a load fails due to a format change in a column or a column being added to the data set

We have a customer requesting a data validation email if a load fails due to a format change in a column or a column being added to the data set. This would be part of the Uploader Service notifications to include data formatting validations, simi...
7 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Ability to schedule an email containing data from a table in CSV format

Currently only regular emailing of PDF files can be scheduled in Apptio BI. Any tables are displayed exactly as seen on screen meaning in many cases the data cannot be seen (see PDF for an example where you cannot read all the text or data). I wou...
7 months ago in Apptio 0 Submitted

Expand Frontdoor API to include CREATE, UPDATE, and DELETE (CRUD) of custom roles

As a Managed Service Provider who manages the Apptio implementation on behalf of the customer organization. The customer organization has many agencies underneath. Each agency may or may not have same permissions to view and use different componen...
7 months ago in Apptio 0 Submitted

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:...
7 months ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Permissions to Restrict Only Check In or Check Out

We have multiple developers of varying levels working in TBM Studio. We would like some of these users to have the ability to Check Out tables and reports in TBM Studio so they can create a copy or see additional options, while restricting their a...
8 months ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Would like to give user(s) access to their own project in TBM Studio without also giving them access to the main Cost Transparency project.

Users in other areas of the business will be able to utilize Apptio without gaining access to confidential data or compromising the integrity of another user's project or the main CT project. It will help drive exposure and expansion of the applic...

Reports to be Accessed for Closed Time Periods

End-users who do not have admin access should be able to access the reports even for closed time-periods otherwise the reports might not be helpful to them and each time an admin would have to intervene to keep changing the time-periods.
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted