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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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Prometheus complex queries in Custom Dashboards

Hi team, I want to use Prometheus complex queries in widgets, something like this: sum( avg(container_cpu_allocation) by (pod,node) * on (node) group_left() avg(avg_over_time(node_cpu_hourly_cost[10m])) by (node) * on (pod) group_left() label_repl...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Enhancement Request: Utility for Syntax Validation of Probe Properties and nco_pad.conf Files Without Restart

Description: We would like to request an enhancement in the Netcool/OMNIbus suite to include a utility or feature that can validate the syntax of the following configuration files without requiring a component restart: Probe properties files (*.pr...
3 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Totals, sub-totals, summaries for cards on views

Calculate and show totals, subtotals across filtered cards Show totals for columns in list views (in headers or footers) Show totals for cells, for column/row headers in board views Use them to summarize total effort, time spent/remain, co...
over 5 years ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Reporting that shows the financial impact of Changes at Towers, Services Business Units

As an Apptio Developer I would like to be able to see the impact of my changes in a report BEFORE I check in, against the cost metric at Resource Towers, Business Services and Business Unit allocation. Then I know that the changes I am making are ...
11 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Introduce SFTP as an official source for downloading offline agent assemblies in Instana.

BWI has strict security and integrity regulations for corporate networking. Their secure download service only supports the SFTP protocol, and adding new protocols requires a lengthy approval process. To simplify their operations and adhere to the...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

The "Task" should be customizable in process defintion

As all other term in the process definiton the task should also be customizable. As all other workitems it should be possible to give it in a process another term. Now the term "Task" will be translated according to your language settings, which c...
5 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

Validation Rules - Suppress the rule id in error message

Validation Rules - Suppress the rule id that appears along with the error message on UI as it is not meaningful from a business user's perspective, it may be helpful for someone from dev team in debugging but from and end users' perspective, it co...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

Confidence Vote Improvements to view votes by team.

In SAFe, the first confidence vote is completed at the team level. The second vote is at the ART level after the Risks have been "ROAM'd". Suggested Improvements: View the vote by Team in the PI view. Show a separate line for each voting session b...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 0 Under review

Instana observabiltiy console - grant access to specific vSphere Datacenter

We monitoring multiple vSphere Datacenters, but we would like have option to grant access to view them separtely, same like for Kubernetes view
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Under review

Allow for Responsible Team Field to still be populated when multiple teams are added to an entity

Hello, We have a use case where we would still like to assign a responsible team to epics even though there are multiple teams assigned to an epic. Currently, if there is more than 1 team assigned to an epic, it is not possible to populate a respo...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review