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Enable Account-Level and Resource Group Identification and Filtering for IBM Cloud Resources in SLOs

We need to improve the availability of account-level and resource group information for IBM Cloud resources in Instana to enable accurate SLO creation and filtering. The customer has a large IBM Cloud environment and needs to create individual SLO...
about 4 hours ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

Enable Project-Level Identification and Filtering for GCP Resources in SLOs

Hello team,We need to improve the availability of project-level information for GCP resources in Instana to enable accurate SLO creation and filtering. The customer works with a large GCP environment and organize their resources and billing by pro...
about 5 hours ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

add support for MySQL Group Replication monitoring

Need to support mysql group monitoring by adding (for example) metrics like performance_schema.replication_group_members, replication_group_member_stats and so on. To this day, only source-replica metrics seem to be supported
3 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Support for OTEL RUM support

Support for OpenTelemetry RUM (Real User Monitoring)We do need solutions for monitoring real user experiences (RUM) using open standards. Naitive platform's capabilities. Requesting a roadmap regarding native support for OpenTelemetry (OTel) on th...
5 days ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Submitted

leaderboard/ranking view on the Optimization Dashboard

The FinOps team is exploring ways to improve user engagement and motivate users to take optimization actions. One of their requests is to add a leaderboard/ranking view to the Optimization Dashboard, leveraging the assigned user information and sa...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Add “Previous Calendar Month” as a Dynamic Default Reporting Period

Please add the ability to configure the default reporting period for a project or report as Previous Calendar Month. Currently, the default date selector can be configured to display the current open month, or it can be set to a specific hard-code...
3 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Support .NET Applications in the Instana-Turbonomic Integration

I would like to propose adding .NET application support to the integration between IBM Instana and IBM Turbonomic. Currently, the Turbonomic Instana target documentation lists Java, Node.js, and Python as supported application types discovered fro...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

Support Cross Series Aggregation - SLO Infrastructure Count Metadata

We would like to request support for cross-series aggregation in Instana Infrastructure SLOs.The customer operates as a service provider (cloud services) and has contractual SLAs with its clients. The main requirement is to determine whether a mon...
about 1 month ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

Commitment Portfolio Alert

Cldy’s Commitment Portfolio management screen has a commitment alert feature, and I believe these alerts are currently configured on an individual logged-in user basis. My customer would like the ability to select a group or similar recipient opti...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Submitted

Request native integration with Microsoft Teams and Slack..

Cloudability currently provides egress integrations with Jira, ServiceNow, and PagerDuty. I would like to request native integration with Microsoft Teams and Slack as well. While alerts are currently delivered mainly via email, email-based notific...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Submitted