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Change the MSGW filtering by excluding the jobs in MSGW without a reply needed

Customers might have a few (or more) jobs in MSGW that don't actually need a reply. When configuring the MSGW monitoring in the INSTANA configuration.yaml, you can only define status/subsystem, so everything in MSGW would be considered, generating...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Ability to customize starting month for pans

When we generate forecast using plans feature, we should be able to customize starting month for plans. This will help tracking our commitments with CSPs. For example - If we have a commitment with CSP starting from Sep-2025 for 2 years. I dont ne...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Under review

Ability to generate forecast in plans for up to 6 years

We have some long range commitments with Cloud Service Providers for next 5 years. For us to track that under plans, we will need to forecast for next 6 years starting from this year. But since the current plan feature allows for only up to 3 year...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Under review

CFP - Support Azure Contract Commitments (including 5 year Plan Duration)

Customers would like the ability to track and reconcile their Azure Contract Commitments (e.g., Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA), Enterprise Agreement (EA), Azure Consumption Commitment, Azure Prepayment, etc.) directly within the Cloud Financia...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Under review

Monitoring capability for IBMi temporary addresss metric

Customer want to monitor temporayry address metric on IBMi(AS400), Because there are some issues for consuming this temporary address. So, it must monitor , but Instana can't monitor this metric. Please add enhanced function for monitoring tempora...
2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Intelligent Budget Reallocation & Forecast Adjustment in CFP

Right now, CFP only tells you when a team overspends but you have to fix it manually. Example: Finance sees that Marketing overspent budget by 10% in CFP. They must go into another system, reallocate budget, get approvals from Finance, and inform ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Under review

Have more than 5 dimensions that can be added within a plan

Hi,We would like the ability to add more than five dimensions to a plan. This flexibility is important for us, as we often need to filter and analyze data across multiple dimensions to meet various business needs. Different business units have uni...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 4 Under review

Need an option to increase polling interval for built-in events such as Ping which we are monitoring using synthetic check.

Need an option to increase polling interval for built-in events such as Ping which we are monitoring using synthetic check.
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Under review