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Please support Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) Billing Profile entity

In the MCA setup there is the option to define multiple billing profiles. Each billing profile will receive it's own monthly invoice, and shared scope reservations and savings plans will be shared within a billing profile only. Azure subscriptions...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Submitted

Sticky Filters In the Rightsizing Module

When a user is using the Rightsizing module they can "Add a Filter" to find the appropriate data that they are looking for. If they are in AWS EC2 and want to naviagate to AWS EBS, those applied filters fall off. This also happens when moving betw...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Submitted

Provide Recommendations Tailor to Expiring Commitments

Currently, Cloudability doesn’t allow users to get recommendations for more commitments if there’s already a plan in place, even if it’s about to expire. It would be helpful if Cloudability could make recommendations for Savings Plans / other comm...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Planned for future release

Reserved Coverage Rate metric needs to include Azure's MS Fabric

We have dashboard widgets to surface our Reserved Coverage Rate. We recently purchased large reservations for Microsoft Fabric and the Reserved Coverage Rate never increased. We subsequently learned that Fabric was not included in the Metric.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Request to Enable Retrieval and Display of Metrics Equivalent to Navigator for i

For users who integrate IBM i with other systems, relying solely on Navigator for i for IBM i operations is inefficient.Meanwhile, the metrics that can be retrieved via Instana for IBM i are fewer than those available through Navigator for i, whic...
18 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Functionality already exists

Request to support locales other than English for DB on i.

Currently, the agent only supports the English locale for DB on i.However, many Japanese users have their locale set to Japan, and this situation is causing many IBM i users to miss out on the opportunity to use Instana. With support, Instana's bu...
17 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Commitment Support for Azure AI Foundry Provisioned Throughput

All available commitment types should be included in the list of purchased commitments My company is using "openai_provisioned_throughput" as a way of savings on AI usage. Currently those reservations are not listed in Cldy making it difficult for...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 2 Future consideration

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

Add Purchasing Account Name in Tables on Commitment Portfolio for RIs

It would be helpful to on the Commitment Portfolio page, when selecting AWS RIs, to show the purchasing account. When selecting Savings Plans, you do get the account name included. This would help the central FinOps team be able to quickly analyze...