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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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Move tabs up when the tab scroll bar appears. Ensure the scroll bar doesn't cover part of the tab text.

why: the new functionality - Horizontal scroll bar for open Studio document tabs​ - is very helpful, but the scroll bar cuts off the bottom part of text. g, p,j,q,y all have their tails removed. Pricing looks like Pricino because the bottom part o...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Rightsizing ROI- Allow businesses to define custom resolutions when "Wont Do" is selected in Rightsizing ROI tickets.

As a FinOps practitioner at a large company, I need to be able to itemize missed optimization opportunities. Currently, the comment field offered in the Rightsizing ROI is a free form only field, and the field is not exported when you export the r...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Instana Agent Installation on MQ: Configuration Challenges and Retry Mechanism Concerns

We encountered some issues during the Instana Agent installation on MQ. Below are the steps we followed and our observations Initial Installation The Instana Agent was installed with the default configuration, running under the "system" account. C...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Authentication mechanism used for the AWS Observer

One of our customer has a security policy in place, that enforces the following mechanism to be used when accessing AWS: The mechanism is to assume an IAM role in the AWS account using the 'sts:AssumeRoleWithSAML' AWS API call. This returns a set ...
9 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Planned for future release

Azure Application Insights monitoring

Support for collecting metrics, traces and logs from Azure Application InSight. This would enable insight into SaaS applications.
10 months ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

.Net core Windows service should auto discover without adding the Nuget package(Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows).

In order to setup the monitoring for .Net core Windows service we need to install Nuget package (Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows) and rebuild/publish the application which requires a new release and therefore we need a solution which will au...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 5 Not under consideration

vSphere sensor should be able to monitor multiple vCenter environments

Most customers have multiple vCenter environments. With the current design, customers must dedicate multiple VMs in order to monitor multiple vCenter environments. This is a waste of resources and means that the customer must dedicate multiple ser...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Waterfall Chart in Cost Transparency

This enhancement request would allow us to view the full page of the waterfall chart in the Cost Transparency > Production environment and hide the data entry table that is only needed in TBM Studio > Development environment.  However, ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 1 Planned for future release

Adapt number format to regional conventions for decimal and thousands separator

For European users, the display of amounts in the American format can be quite annoying. E.g. The numeric fields are formatted using the American conventions: - point as decimal separator - comma as thousands separator e.g. 880,000.00 In Germany, ...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

Include Disk USED vs Provisioned as a rightsizing recommendation

As a new rightsizing opportunity, for customers who have enhanced CW metrics enabled on their EC2 instances could we look to including a capability to check the actually utilized disk vs what was provisioned, eg: you're only using 10GB of a 1TB pr...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration