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Ability to flag/unflag comments

Summary: Currently, comments are used on math tasks to ask questions to the test team. Frequently comments/questions are missed, as they get buried in other comments/follow ups, or within threads. We are requesting a mechanism to flag/unflag selec...
11 days ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 1 Not under consideration

Time delta between different entity states

Use case for illustrating the need for tracking the time delta between different activity states --> KPI/efficiency metrics. Currently we have several dates for an activity: I need a way to capture the following:* How long did it take between t...
11 days ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 0 Future consideration

limit the editing permissions for "teams" and "roles" to the team user belong to

[1] select a team when inviting users same as role[2] limit the editing permissions for "teams" and "roles" to the team user belong to.we want to set an team administrator for each team, but the team administrator can also edit other teams, so we ...
11 days ago in Instana / Access Control 2

Add subgrouping to Infrastructure View

Hi team, our customer would like to have the possibility of having more than one-level of grouping in the Infrastructure View (something like sub-zone concept), so they can manage the complexity of their infrastructure Platform and have a better v...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Allow more options for Perspective and Grouping in the Infrastructure View

Hi team, we know currently we can use Zones, which are the default display in the Infrastructure View, and then we can use Host or Container Grouping based on a defined set of attributes like CPU, OS, K8S namespace, etc. We explored the Tag Prefix...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Add Alias option for Hosts

Hi team, When monitoring a Host, the naming is based on the FQDN. Sometimes this name is not explanatory or easily identifiable by Instana users, especially when a customer has a big amount of hosts being monitored. It would be great to have the p...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Tree view for Projects dropdown similar to Departments dropdown in ITP

Projects dropdown will display top-level nodes with expand/collapse options to drill into lower levels. Provides clear visibility of hierarchy, improves navigation, and ensures consistency with the Departments dropdown. It will save time for users...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

Allow Multiple Metadata Fields in Device/Object Group Membership Rule

As we are using Metadata fields to store device or object extra static data, we are facing challenge of only one metadata field can be used in Device/Object Group Membership Rule. Sometimes we can get by creating multiple rules to mimic 'OR' multi...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

OOTB Executive dashboard reporting

The customer would like to have the ability to have executive level aggregated reporting available OOTB in SevOne Data Insight. A streamlined capability to defined the calculations for creating the aggregate values would be necessary. Example Dash...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

1yr performance graphs

Expand time range for the largest selectable timespan to one year in the user interface. This allows customer's operations team to see long term performance and capacity trends. The yearly graph should have 365 daily datapoints which will speed th...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration