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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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Instana run under a non-root after installation (Standard Edition)

Customer is expecting that all Instana processes should run under a non-root user after issuing stanctl up command. We were advice (by an Instana site reliability engineer) to do the following and if would solve the problem but it did not: copy /r...
25 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Need a feature to monitor the long running job in IBM i

Need a feature to monitor the long running job in IBM i. The time exception will be provided by application team for the respective jobs. The alert should be triggered with the time threshold for that particular job is breached.
27 days ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Submitted

Improved Weekly Time Entry Experience for TP Users

As a TP user, I need an improved user experience for weekly time entry, allowing me to quickly log time for the entire week, view the time already submitted versus the remaining, check the approval status of my timesheet, and access other relevant...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Submitted

Dashboards need to be easy to configure and add more applets

OOB dashboard configuration is not enough to handle or present all requirements need to add more applets and can be filtered based to certain text for example
about 1 month ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Submitted

Need OCI Pluggable Database costs in Cloudability

Pluggable Database costs are now available in the OCI CUR FIles, however, the costs are in a column named "attributed costs". Cloudability is not looking at this column and is missing the costs of Pluggable DBs.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Ability to download csv data export of drill table results from Apptio BI reports

Problem: Right now a report view can access a configured drill table, update as needed if it's an exploratory drill table, but there's no easy way to get a copy of the results. Not all drill tables even allow them to save a copy in Apptio BI itsel...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Quick Currency Switch Button

Overview Currently, users must navigate through multiple steps in the user preferences menu to change their preferred currency. This process is time-consuming and interrupts workflow, especially for users who frequently need to view data in differ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Submitted

Enable host availability percentage (% Uptime) for a given time period

Calculating the host uptime percentage is essential, as it provides a simple yet critical metric that reflects how long a server has been available compared to the total monitoring period. This measurement is vital for assessing the reliability of...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Align the Azure region names in Cloudability with the actual Azure region names

As can be seen in the attachment, Azure provide two region name standards via the API; PricesExtract.Items.armRegionName which is currently used as the second part of the region name in cloudability, and PricesExtract.Items.location which currentl...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Submitted

KPI widget for Rightsizing is only 10 days, would like it to be 30, 90 and use effective savings as well, toggle for widget configuration

Ask -**Default Period**: - The default period for analysis is currently set to **10 days**. - We aim to extend this default period to **30 days**. **Additional Lookback**: - However, we also need to consider a **90-day lookback**. - Some of our gr...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted