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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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Allow more flexibility on alert messages

We would like to customize the subject of email alerts sent, so that the users can at a glance determine what is going wrong. This could be done by adding an option for a custom title in the Alert parameters.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Add information for K8s/OCPs to the release notes in the Instana documentation

We are very pleased to see the release notes for Instana Agent/Sensor/Tracer being added.However, users of Instana with K8s/OCPs should also gather the following information. These can currently only be obtained from the individual githubs. YAML h...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Language Expansion

At this time, only English and Japanese are offered as language settings in Apptio. It would be extremely valuable for the Spanish language to be added as well.
2 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Allow the Group Step to ignore blanks instead of turning them into {Various}

We receive a data file that for a single key the data is across multiple rows, see example picture attached. (A similar common scenario is appended data with new columns that duplicates a key, however in this case we know the columns and can use a...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Add a section for alerts in the host view

When searching for alerts set for a VM/host, you have to navigate to alerts and filter through all the alerts to see which may be applicable to that host. It would be easier if you could navigate to the host and see which alerts are tied to that s...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Create Orphaned resources menu to be able to track deleted resources savings

Savings generated from deleted resources or orphaned resource cleanup is one of categories that Business is asking Cloud teams to track.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Group synthetic tests for better overview and navigation

It would be nice to create groups and assign tests to one or multiple groups to make it easier to find tests for team members or stakeholders of a certain test topic.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Cloudability for SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)

SAP Business Technology Platform is an innovation platform optimised for SAP applications in the cloud and a PaaS cloud computing service offered by SAP.More than 16,000 cloud customers are using BTP, and due to the Transformation to S/4HANA, more...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Enable Views to be shared based on role assignment rather than named users.

Support Case Ref:00355348 This applies to Apptio TOTALCOST including Cloudability and TBM Studio/Cost Transparency. Our access management approach is such that we expose certain features to our end users based on their Mission Organization. A Mi...
5 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

GCP Cost not tally if not filter by Invoice Date/ID

GCP Cost numbers are not tally. Can't do monthly view as number will never be correct with GCP Native Billing
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted