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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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More detailed error messages in Datalink Financials

A similar enhancement idea already exists for Datalink Classic, but the error messages for Datalink Financial are also inscrutable. Example: Failed connector details: "Error while calling Async Post API. Code: 500 , Message: Error message rece...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Under review

SSO Validation for Targetprocess for a token

The security that is currently set up does not meet standards and is concerning that users can access when they shouldn't. For example if a service account token is shared and then a particular user leaves the company because the service account i...
2 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Request for specification improvement of K8Sensor when using Instana in OpenShift environment.

Request for specification improvement of K8Sensor when using Instana in OpenShift environment. In an OpenShift environment, K8Sensor runs as three PODs by default. The first deployed pod is designated as the leader pod and is responsible for s...
2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Easier Way to Identify Drill Down Reports

We recently had Apptio perform a Technical Health Assessment and we received a list of reports that were recommended to make inactive.  Many of them were drill down reports which are hard to identify from the Apptio UI,  It would be a he...
11 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

Discovery and Zero-Code Instrumentation of C++ Applications

Title: Discovery and Zero-Code Instrumentation of C++ Applications Detail: Instana agent couldn't able to do both discover and instrument the applications written in C++ with .NET Framework. We would like to discover and instrument these kind of a...
4 months ago in Instana / .NET 0 Under review

Metric to see inflight request in each service

How to measure inflight request in each service? Number of request processed by application or service at any point in time. This is not same as request per second. An application may get many request at a time. In that how many are actually being...
4 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Add Build to Batch Actions Panel

Instead of having to click into individual user stories, features, etc. or using the search functionality in the Build detail view, allow the Build to edited in bulk. It is a common scenario to add a group of user stories to a Build rather than on...
2 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

Allow the Instana agent to monitor CP4BA

Creating this idea but we also have created a case b/c we do not know if this is a defect or enhancement req. Problem Description:Currently, Instana cannot monitor CP4BA. CP4BA has made their container image filesystems readonly and the Instana ag...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

VVOL volumes are not providing data to Turbonomic. So the data cannot be stitched.

A customer with a vcenter target utilizing Pure Storage is missing storage capacity and usage information (storage access IOPS / latency) in Turbo for some VMs, but are getting those metrics for other VMs discovered from the same vCenter target , ...

Permit defining default width of table fields in Ad Hoc Component Configuration

As a TBMA, I would like greater control over defining the column width of fields I add to a table and have the width persist when time options (eg Months Year to Date, Current Month, Year to Date) and/or other fields are added as row/column fields...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review