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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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Expand parking functionaly beyond cloud VMs

Parking employs API calls to stop and start VMs running in the cloud. But why limit it to that? Understandably, the functionality was built for that particular and valuable use case, but it would be advantageous to extend that functionality to any...

Get Last Filter Value

When using the Get Last Filter Value function in HTML for a drill report, we want the function (or a new function) to show the user the value that they just clicked to perform the drill. In theory, the thing they clicked is the exact last filter a...
5 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Javascript map files should not be downloaded repeatedly

The Website monitoring supports minified javascript through parsing of mapping files. However these mapping files are not cached by Instana so they are downloaded repeatedly. For big applications this means millions of downloads of files which are...
5 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

To customize HTTP Header for the native OAuth Provider.

For the API Connect native OAuth flow, after the completion of the authentication by AU/AZ server, API Connect will trigger an API call to the AU/AZ server to confirm the confirmation code. However, we found that the HTTP Header of the API is empt...
5 months ago in Instana / API-C 0 Submitted

Need to mask portion of the request path url (Path Variable)

Need to mask portion of the request path url (Path Variable). for example : https://my.domain/accounts/324345/status want to mask the path variable - 324345
10 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Update the email address from stan@instana to instana@instana.com

The email stan@instana.com is not service account and conflict with a user named Stan in the organization.
10 months ago in Instana / Common 2 Not under consideration

Properly version tables and reports etc

There is no way to find the configuration of previous versions of tables / reports (and other items that have configuration that can be changed) Also I cannot find what has changed between different check-ins. I could not revert to a previous chec...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Ability to add more than 10 Application Perspective's to events/alerts/etc

Would like the ability to add more than 10 Application Perspective's to event/alerts. This would allow us to add more Application Perspective's to one alert instead of creating multiple of the same alert to cover the Application Perspective's that...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

TWS compatibility with Cloud Block storage

Hi Team, We raised a case TS018127615 to check IWS compatibility & performances with Pure storage Cloud Block Store (CBS) Our Business Team is exploring options to migrate the storage from Cloud Native to Cloud Block Storage. We are using IWS ...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Focus Option for Folders

I appreciate the improved search functionality and its clear results display. I frequently use it when concentrating on specific tasks and associated views. However, as a Targetprocess administrator, my left-hand menu becomes cluttered. Adding a "...
5 months ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Under review