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Smart Alert based on memory or CPU usage

We have already the possibility to create smart alerts based on the ratio between usage and limits or usage and request, but there is not an option to create an smart alert based on a static amount of memory MB or CPU cores. So lets say, create an...
2 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes Submitted

To make KubeCost Cloud Billing Integration setup cloud agnostic instead of leveraging cloud native services.

Decouple Kubecost cloud billing integration from cloud-native dependencies and build a cloud-agnostic cost ingestion + transformation pipeline using Databricks, enabling consistent cost analysis across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
2 days ago in Cloudability / Kubecost/Advanced Containers Submitted

Roadmap and future plans for CSA support across multiple CSPs and across different AWS services

It is useful and beneficial for customers who have usage across different CSPs and also holds usage across multiple AWS services as well.
2 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation Submitted

Application based smart alerts overview that shows tiggered issues

Hi, As we are implementing Instana to monitor a rather big environment with tons of apps, devs, ops and teams, Smart Alerts seem to be a good way to reduce workload due to the generic nature of the configuration. It is unusable though as it is ATM...
2 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives Submitted

Enable more flexible and customizable anomaly alerting to reduce noise and improve relevance for cost monitoring teams.

Enhance anomaly detection to allow alerts triggered by a percentage (%) threshold to also require a minimum dollar ($) value, ensuring alerts are only sent when the anomaly exceeds a meaningful cost impact and reducing low‑value notification noise.
2 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection Submitted

Fix the compatibility between other Java agent that both are attempting to instrument the same method, such as doFilter

Fix the compatibility between other Java agent that both are attempting to instrument the same method, such as doFilter. Refer to case TS021897497
2 days ago in Instana / Java Submitted

Show Metrics for the Number of Active and Closed Web Sessions in Instana Analytics

Instana currently provides visibility into web session data in the “Websites / Page loads” analytics view, but it does not expose metrics to distinguish between active and closed sessions or provide their respective counts. We request that metrics...
2 days ago in Instana / Metric Store Submitted

Ability to filter chained widgets with Line visualizations using the parent's legend checkboxes

Refernce SevOne Support ticket number: TS021711425 Filtering of a chained line visualization is not intuitive because the checkboxes in the legend of the parent widget do not function as an anticipated filter for the chained child widget. Developm...
3 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) Submitted

Direct query access to native cloud billing fields

Cloudability currently abstracts and normalizes all billing data from providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP. While this enables unified cost visibility, it limits users' ability to validate and interpret data in "like-for-like" terms with the orig...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Consolidated AWS Permissions Documentation

Summary Customers are finding it difficult to locate all required AWS permissions for setting up Cloudability master payer credentials and linked account credentials. The information is currently distributed across multiple documentation pages, ma...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Submitted