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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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Enable multi-year TARGETs

We do a lot of multi-year budgeted, but are unable to leverage the TARGETS feature because it only applies to the first year of the "plan". We need multi-year TARGETs to match our state biennial budget cycle.
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Managing Plans - Grouping and Access

To help with useability of Planning especially if you have multiple plans - 1) Have a grouping of plans - would allow the drop down to have the group first and then open to see the plans within the group 2) Allow users to be given permission and o...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

Ability to Filter Traces with Custom Parameters

Under Analytics section, If we will have the ability to filter calls and traces with custom parameters that are part of the payload then it will enhance the monitoring and help teams in troubleshooting the production issues. This feature could be ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Not under consideration

Need options other than helm to install the synthetic PoP servers

I'm working with a customer that has access to the kubernetes cluster, but doesn't have access to helm. So, he can't install the synthetic playback (PoP server). We need to provide other options for installing the PoP server. Ideally, provide both...
9 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Send Anomaly Alerts to multiple people

Currently everyone who wants to receive alerts on anomalies has to create their own email alerts because it only sends to yourself. It would be helpful to be able to add multiple people to an anomaly email alert so that multiple people can get not...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection / Cloudability Government 0 Planned for future release

Allow for adding redundant LDAP servers to an LDAP-Server-Group configuration

SevOne currently only supports one LDAP server entry per domain. This idea is to allow for the creation of an LDAP-Server-Group configuration where you could have more than one LDAP server for a domain in a single LDAP-group, and then create AD gr...
2 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration

Hostname For Outbound SMTP Connections Should Be Configurable

The current implementation of php SMTP mailer does not set the hostname for the HELO message, which results in Message-IDs ending with 'localhost.localdomain'. This cannot be changed, and may result in the alert mailer not working under some SMTP ...
4 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Is a defect

Adding Single-AZ or Multi-AZ field to the RDS Resource Inventory

Adding the availability zone details in a column of Resource Inventory would give the customer a detailed view on the RDS.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Future consideration

Add CPU count and memory metrics to go along with instance types.

Withe the instance type information, adding a CPU count and total memory should be a easy metric addition that maps to the instance types. CPU count would be very helpful for licensing requirements.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Future consideration

Treat Call and Trace metrics like any other time-series metrics

Regarding Application & Trace Data Retention policy, we claim that “Accurate metrics of applications, services, and endpoints are kept for 31 days.” After looking into this in detail, I have made the following observations: Call metrics with 1...
4 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration