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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Place event id in alert header

Currently there is no id in email alert header. Please make e.g. event id part of email alert header to support automated and human processing
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Improve security around "Share Page" views through Tauboard to not have security vulnerabilities

We had to turn off the "Share view" functionality because it would allow our users to share proprietary views outside of our company to anyone with an internet connection. We liked the ease of use and functionality of being able to share any infor...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Sync Team Iterations (Sprints) in Date order

Ideally, the sprints that are auto-generated should sync back to Jira in the correct order. Instead, we put undue inconvenience of having to rearrange all the sprints after they are sync'd to Jira. This is not a good user experience.
3 months ago in Targetprocess / ADO/JIRA Integration 0 Under review

Multi factor Authentication

"Background:Multi-factor authentication (MFA) enhances the security of an application by providing an added layer(s) of authentication mechanism. The authentication mechanism can be any of the following types: what the user knows (security questio...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Enhancing Maintenance mode bug

When someone puts 1 device into maintenance mode it only shows the first 6 digits of the device name. However, many clients have similar long naming conventions and you canno't differentiate between devices with the same 6 digit prefix.
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Is a defect

Sound notification when Datalink connector finishes running

As a Datalink Admin or Apptio Admin, I'd like the ability to opt-in to a sound notification that's triggered when a Datalink connector status resolves (either Success or Failed). I'll know it's complete when I run a connector from Datalink, then h...
11 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

[python-sensor] - Instrumentation

Please add support for the following python libraries: - stomp.py (Stomp QA) - aioamqp (AMQP) - zeep (SOAP) - spyne (SOAP Server) Currently they are not supported.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Python 3 Future consideration

Add a WYSIWYG or Rich Text HTML Editor to the HTML Component

Please add a WYSIWYG HTML editor to the HTML component. Currently, there is only the option to edit in raw html. If you add a reference to an editor like TinyMCE (https://www.tiny.cloud), it would enable us to edit the contents of an HTML componen...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Enhancing RabbitMQ monitoring by decoupling queue metrics from node affiliation or implementing automated metric udates once a queue is reloacted to a diffrent RabbitMQ node

For RabbitMQ in a multi-node environment, Instana message queue metrics are tied to specific nodes, causing issues when message queues are relocated to different nodes due to node failures. This leads to failed updates and no data representation i...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Alert on agents

We need to create an alert when there is a significant drop in the number of agents, currently there is one alert per agent. This will allow us to react quickly on our side in case of a significant loss of agents
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration