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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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Enhanced Excel Export Function

Add an option to add an "Export to Excel" button to any report, including modal pages. the button should export all tables in the report.  Allow to configure the default name or prefix of the excel export file. for example, "Application TCO P...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Embedded/reusable report component

I would like the ability to create one report and re-use it inside multiple reports. this could be like an HTML view that is displaying an existing report. the use case is that if we need to make changes to the report component we can do it only i...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Report has a message flag

Report has a message flag is being used by customer to alert them of when they are reporting on devices no longer in the system. This feature exist on the NMS Report Manager but not in Data Insight.
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Not under consideration

'order-by' functionality for the traces api

We are in need of 'order-by' functionality for the traces(/api/application-monitoring/analyze/traces) api. We have executed the following request with this body as a post request to /api/application-monitoring/analyze/traces . But we haven't recei...
4 months ago in Instana / API-C 0 Future consideration

Andoid SDK - Ability to reset Instana.sessionId programatically

Current implementation of Mobile Application Monitoring creates a session upon each fresh start of the mobile app. It would help greatly if we could programatically reset this sessionId.
11 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Mouseover to give column explanations

Hi all,  we use a wide range of columns in APPTIO Planning, which at time can be confusing to end users.  We would like to give end users some more input and thought something like a mouseover-functionality would be a great way to show ...
7 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Under review

Search: Remember last filters. Save filter presets. Recent searches as suggestions

Don't set Order to 'Relevance' by default. Don't set Projects&Teams to 'All' by default. Please add the ability to save search presets for faster searching. 
over 6 years ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

How do I identify the view “creator” amongst the owners with UI or API

How do I identify the view “creator” amongst the owners? There is no indicator, that I’m aware of, for who created the view and this is an issue we would like to avoid in the future.
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Azure Cosmo DB Storage

Instana does not analyze the behavior of Azure Cosmo DB Storage, it is necessary to be able to detect if there is a storage problem and alert about this.
7 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

Data Insight - Support multiple owners for Reports RBAC

Currently Reports RBAC includes Public and RO permission (across all users.) A business issue arises when a Public RO (Production) Report needs to be modified while the (single) Owner is not available. This forces an admin user to manually make a ...
7 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration