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Details about pipelines and releases

Right now in Instana we can manage releases via APIs and can see them via the time picker. But we cannot see details about the release: how long did it take, what it changed (broke), etc. This idea is to enhance the pipelines / release CI/CD suppo...
9 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0

Customization of trace analytics columns

Right now when looking at traces in the Analytics page there's only 3 columns: Service, Timestamp and Latency. This idea is to be able to customize this list to include other attributes and thus modify the sort order.
9 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Time-rage per widget

All widgets in Instana's custom dashboard follow the same time-rage (from the top right corner of the UI). This idea is for each widget to be able to override this time range.
9 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Outlier detection for infrastructure smart alerts

Many competitors implement outlier detection (example from Splunk: https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-observability-cloud/create-alerts-detectors-and-service-level-objectives/create-alerts-and-detectors/built-in-alert-conditions/outlier-detection)....
9 days ago in Instana / Alert 1

Sticky Filters In the Rightsizing Module

When a user is using the Rightsizing module they can "Add a Filter" to find the appropriate data that they are looking for. If they are in AWS EC2 and want to naviagate to AWS EBS, those applied filters fall off. This also happens when moving betw...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

To have clear auditing & logging for RestAPI related actions

This idea is related to have a clearing auditing and logging for any action taken using restapi either through swagger or by calling the restapi through a script. Right now there is no distinction from where the action is being performed. This ide...
22 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Expand the ability to use Map Columns

The Map Columns transform step can only be used with what are called Master Datasets which only exist in components. This should be changed so that the Map Columns step can be used with any data transform. One of the main reasons for this is that ...
29 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Apptio Demand:::Allow editable table work to persist even during other users' check-ins

Currently if user 'A' is in the midst of editing an editable table, and user 'B' does a check-in, when the screen refreshes for user 'A' at the point in time when user 'B''s check-in has completed calculating, User 'A' will lose any unsaved work i...
29 days ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Ability to rename metrics in TBM Studio

Currently without any way to rename a metric, if users dislike the initial name, a new metric needs to be created and all allocations and model objects added to that metric. Additionally all report components need to be updated to use the new metr...
29 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Allow components to be uninstalled

Component installation in TBM Studio applications is a one-way door allowing the installation of a component, but components and their related reports, datasets, metrics, perspectives, and allocations cannot be uninstalled. This means that if a cu...
29 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted