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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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Azure default configuration.yaml and documentation is very misleading

When looking at the default configuration.yaml for Azure and looking at the documentation, it is very misleading. And, it does not follow standard documentation principals. It causes confusion and causes customers to specify invalid configurations...
3 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Under review

Enabling Traceability on Azure Key Vault

The information provided today by Instana is not enough to determine when a problem occurs at the transaction level in Azure Key Vault, the information regarding performance and configuration metrics could be complemented by reviewing in depth the...
3 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Under review

Function to allow the controlled display of an allocated value from a lower object

Being able to set the Columns of a table to be the column of a lower object (i.e. a drill table) is extremely useful in showing the makeup of costs - eg the Cost Pools contributing to an application, you see the values at Cost Source categorised b...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

Out-of-the-box vs Custom Reports

As a TBMA, I'd like to be able to pull a report that shows me which of our existing reports are out-of-the-box vs custom. We are building out a report dictionary and this is a field we'd like to have available. This will also help us work around u...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

Cloudability should be able to automatically archive deleted accounts

Cloudability has access to our billing account and to the API to query additional information. There should be a capability within Cloudability to automatically archive accounts that do not exist no more. Currently those accounts are grouped toget...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Under review

Be able to create parenthesis in filter and select if AND or OR

Be able to create parenthesis in filter and select if AND or OR. For example be able to filter for vendor AWS, usage family Storage and for Azure, usage family Instances (vendor=AWS AND usage family = storage) OR (vendor=Azure AND usage family=Ins...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 3 Under review

Adding additional filter to Analytics Infrastructure view

We have two cassandra clusters with the same name (apm_cassandra) but in different openshift clusters. Because the cluster name is the same, I'm unable to filter out the specific one I'm interested in under Analyze Infrastructure -> Cassandra C...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Instana UI : Display monitored Service names in host page

We need to monitor windows services but on host page can only see pid & process names. Since these services are all using same process, we cannot really know which service is what. Displaying actual service name and description on host page (e...
4 months ago in Instana / Common 4 Under review

Add Copy Action for ExD entities Detailed View Actions Menu

No description provided
9 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

instana saas hosted agent to support aws emr serverless plarform

need to add aws emr serveress platform. it is not supprted based on following link https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-installing-configuring-serverless
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review