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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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Cloudability Integration with Dynatrace to provide memory metrics

Hi Team, Integrating Cloudability with Dynatrace will help in providing memory metrics to the cldy, which will provide more accurate results on the rightsizing recommendations.
about 6 hours ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Submitted

Metric and Dashboard for Server Uptime

Hi Team!Anyway to get Server Uptime information ? If yes, can we build a dashboard or page ?Most observability solutions have this feature, so would be very welcome Instana as well.I can be date from last restart or days/hours server is up etc. Th...
about 7 hours ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Change name of Apdex

Hi, We are using the apdex widget in the custom dashboards. Once the apdex is created, it's not possible anymore to change the name of the apdex. I understand that a clone is needed when changing the threshold or the scope. These configurations ar...
about 10 hours ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Support zLinux for Instana distributed OpenTelemetry collector

We want to collect logs with OpenTelemetry collector. Because of the support perspective, we want to use Instana Distribution of Opentelemetry Collector (IDOT) . But our system is running on zLinux (SUSE) and IDOC does not cover zLinux. Could you ...
about 18 hours ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Under review

It is necesary that the new Time Tracking solution will be integrated to the new Traditional Project solution.

Time tracking, spend of work hours and services hours are critical to track progress and cost for Traditional Projects. So, as Project Task entity should be a work item just as User Stories or Features, they must admit to register hours inside. Th...
about 23 hours ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 0 Submitted

Sort Vendor Credentials Account Names

There appears to be no sort order for Vendor Account Names within an Account. As an example we have an Azure Enterprise account with 100 subscriptions. The order of the subscriptions listed under the account appears to be random and although you c...
about 24 hours ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review

Finalized Data or N-1 Filter for Report Components

Most reporting elements in Cloudability by default include the current day which under most circumstances is not representative of a full day of data. As a result, with graphs you typically see a decreased costs on the current day or current week ...
about 24 hours ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2

More than one possible date range on the layover chart

Currently, it is only possible to have one type of range in the layout, which is in the first layer. When we add more than one layer, we cannot add a different range. For example, if I am in a column of daily expenses, and I would like to enter th...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Add assignment option at policy creation

When creating policies, there is no option to select an assignee. If the policy creates 250 cloudability issues, then we have to go through each task and manually add the assignee. It would be incredibly helpful to select the assignee name at poli...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Grafana like filtering option on SLO Dashboard

Hello, I wanted to create a SLO dashboard on instana and allow users to toggle between service using a drop down menu rather than creating 1 dashboard per service . Example via Grafana : * Grafana allows users to create variables using certain que...
1 day ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted