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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.
28 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Create business mapping dimensions dynamically

I'd like to be able to create business mappings dynamically. For example, using regular expressions to dynamically create new business mappings each time an expression is matched. I would be much easing rather than create a specific statement for ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2 Future consideration

Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Cloudability - Usage Stats

As a Cloudability admin, I should be able to pull usage statistics directly to understand and improve tool adoption. This should include statistics like count of unique users over time, features used within the tool.
9 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to select which libs to attach to a pod

Dear colleagues, we have a customer who runs hundreds of .net pods in a cluster and just a few ruby, nginx, nodejs... containers. they actively use Autotrace Webhook. At the moment they reached the point where excessivve numebr of .Net application...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Future consideration

Update mappings instantly

When creating a Business Mapping or Business Metric, it is necessary to wait 24 hours for the metrics to be populated, causing delays in deliveries or data visualization. We want updates to be instantaneous or at least with a short update period, ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Use fuzzy match on tags and label names for assigning to dimensions

Sometimes similar tags or labels are created that follow a pattern, it would be useful to be able to use fuzzy logic in finding matching tags and labels. For instance "clustername" it could be within "karpenter.sh/discovery/ClusterName" or aws:Clu...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Support for Temenos

We would like to request support for monitoring the Temenos Transact (T24) core banking platform within Instana. The customer is running Temenos Transact (T24) using a combination of: TAFC (Temenos Application Framework for C), and Java components...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Future consideration

IBM MQ tracing on IBM i does not work with newer libstdcplusplus6 12.4.0-3 version

IBM MQ tracing on IBM i does not work with newer libstdcplusplus6 12.4.0-3 version, the workaround was to downgrade the lib to 10.5.0-2 Already discussed with Brock Shamblin I think we should either provide a support or mention this in the documen...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Tracing 0 Future consideration