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CPU Utilization Graph Broken Out by Subsystem with Stacked Visualization & Color Customization

Customer is requesting the ability to break out CPU utilization by application subsystem or service and display it as a stacked bar chart. The customer also requests the ability to customize color assignments for each subsystem in the stacked view.
3 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Submitted

Enhance Service Name (or other dimensions) with AI Model Names from Product Name

Currently, services such as AWS Bedrock (particularly when purchased in AWS Marketplace in this user's scenario) pass through the name of the AI model being used in the Product Name dimension. However, Product Name is not available in TrueCost Exp...
1 day ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability 0 Submitted

Frontdoor Permission for Private, Non-Shareable Views

Request is for a new permission configuration within Frontdoor access model that allows users to create and manage their own private views but restricts them from sharing those views with others. Ability to create, edit, and delete personal views ...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Submitted

Cloudability Optimization Dashboard releases COIN Explorer (Public Preview): computing COIN Score with a CONFIDENCE SCORE

Confidence Score is critical because a COIN score alone can be misleading if the underlying data is incomplete or noisy. The Confidence Score shows how much users can trust the COIN result by reflecting factors such as spend coverage and whether d...
about 20 hours ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Commitment Support for Azure Sentinel

Azure Sentinel prices based on logging data and how long those logs are kept. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/pricing/microsoft-sentinel#section-master-oc2d43
1 day ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Enable Bidirectional Integration Between Instana and BigPanda

The current integration approach between Instana and BigPanda is limited to one‑way communication using webhooks, allowing Instana to send or collect data unidirectionally. However, some customers(FIS, TIS, TSYS) require full bidirectional synchro...
3 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Add Identifier/Flag for Events Suppressed During Maintenance Windows to Support Downstream Integrations

When an Instana environment is in a maintenance window, events are intentionally suppressed and not forwarded to downstream systems such as ServiceNow (SNOW). However, Instana currently provides no mechanism to identify or retrieve which events we...
about 12 hours ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Ability to monitor shared drive on Windows Server (SMB)

Request for Instana to add the ability to be able to monitor Windows shared drives (using SMB) in the same fashion that Linux NFS mount points are currently monitored. I am currently using Windows 2016 and Windows 2022 Standard Edition.
about 17 hours ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Snooze function improvements

1. Comment (Justification) field enhancementsRequest: Improve the comment/justification flow when snoozing resources by adding structured and mandatory input options.Requirements:   Pre-set (customizable) list of justifications available in a drop...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Submitted

Commitment Support for AWS Database Savings Plans

AWS has introduced Database Savings Plans, a commitment-based discount model that reduces eligible managed database costs by up to 35% with an hourly $/hour commitment over a 1-year term, automatically applying each hour to eligible database usage...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 13 Planned for future release