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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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Show stack trace on 1st call in a trace

Currently the customer is showing stack traces on 2nd call, but the first call in a trace doesn't contain stack trace. We need this functionality for analysis of the 1st call of the trace.
10 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Add Project Setting to Enable/Disable Case-Sensitivity

As a TBMA, I would like the ability to disable case-sensitivity in CT. I often resort to forcing columns I use for lookups or data relationships to upper case to ensure they will work. However, I have never had a case where I wanted data to match ...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Hide or customize Expense View Tabs (Labor, Contract, Asset, Other)

We want to improve user experience by hiding unused tabs (e.g. planned Labor). Renaming of Tabs would be a plus, as we could easier add notes for our IT Managers during planning - such as 'do not use'. This would additionally reduce efforts for ou...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Add Project Settings option for Number Formatting to apply to all tables (not shown via reports)

As a TBMA, I would like to see numbers displayed in non-report tables displayed in TBM Studio formatted with a  thousands and/or decimal places, when defined in a new "Number Formatting" option in Project Settings. The formatting will not onl...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Add Project Setting to define an alternating row color for non-report tables in TBM Studio

As a TBMA, I would like to see alternating row colors for all non-report tables displayed throughout TBM Studio. The setting would be applied to any table not displayed on reports (inclusive of those displayed in Object views, Allocation Strategie...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Reduce granularity of adaptive threshold to 2-3 mins for smart alerts

We need granularity up to 2 or 3 mins. Our MTTD (Mean Time To Detect) goal is less than 10 minutes. For us to achieve this, alert should be triggered to us within 2 mins. Reason is to check for minimum 2 consecutive violations before alert is trig...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Future consideration

Product Enhancement Idea to show last Loaded File Name against an Apptio table

Who is the user or role? All the production users including BAU and Technical Team What is the user trying to accomplish? (think process not solution) At present there is no machnism to fetch the detail of File Name which has been loaded i...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Allow the Instana agent to monitor CP4BA

Creating this idea but we also have created a case b/c we do not know if this is a defect or enhancement req. Problem Description:Currently, Instana cannot monitor CP4BA. CP4BA has made their container image filesystems readonly and the Instana ag...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Date Range Toggle Month to Quarters in Cloud Total Cost

We often show our Cloud Total Cost reports to Finance and lead engineers throughout the year. We would like to have the option to toggle between either showing Months in the Date Range dropdown in CTC, or Quarters. This way we get the flexibility ...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Functionality already exists

ITM LO agent dedup feature integrated with Instana

We have integrated ITM LO agent to forward the events to Instana agent; however, we found that the deduplication feature that the LO agent has is not integrated with Instana. For example, in ITM, we can dedup based on the Key attributes such as Cu...
3 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Future consideration