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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

Publishing only select reference data items to open forecasts

As an admin, we regularly update our IT Planning reference data.  In some instances, there are times when the updates are unable to be published into an open plan because certain reference data items have changed that are restricted from bein...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Direct access to Team entity

My question is more to see if there is a way to have a non admin user that is not associated with a team to be able to modify that team?  Is there something that can be done with permissioning and granting access to certain entities that woul...
almost 2 years ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review

Displaying Incorrect Assigned Virtual Cores in Instana Dashboard for Windows Server 2019

Problem Statement: The Instana Dashboard does not display the full number of virtual cores assigned to Windows Server 2019 virtual machines due to a design limitation. This creates a discrepancy in monitoring data for Windows 2019 OS, which impact...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

IT Planning Event Log : open function for Cost Center Owners

Currently Event Log is useful, but it is only visible for Admins. Especially for cost centers managed by multiple users, these cost center owners want to see who eventually has done a change.
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Grafana Instana Plugin dashboard features

We have integrated the Instana with Grafana for dashboarding and have observed that some of the below features are missing which will help in creating better dashboards for customers. 1) TopN - To show the top N Utilized nodes 2) Option to filter ...
2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review

Dynamic discovery of all Filesystems

We have observed that Instana agents auto discovers only local filesystems, for other filesystems we have to define them manually in the configuration yaml file which is tedious task and high chances of missing alerts for newly created filesystems...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Real User Monitoring (RUM)

Automatic injection Configure via UI (Enable/Disable) Ignore browser version DZM data collector for internet apps these are the things we found rum is lacking at the moment. we are also using dynatrace so we usually compare instana with dynatrace ...
2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Enhance AIOps-AWS Observer access to Role based tied when underlying AIOps platform is AWS.

having close to 900 accounts to discover and manage, we would require a single IAM access key and this would be needed if we were to move to AWS.
4 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Enhance AIOps-AWS Observer to use single IAM user to gather data from multiple EC2 instances tied to a single Application

we have hundreds of accounts, and require key rotation. having to manage so many tokens is impossible.
4 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review