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    Need support for bulk updating multiple account group entries in a single API request.

    The lack of a bulk update endpoint forces us to send hundreds of individual API requests for account group updates, significantly slowing automation workflows and making large-scale account management inefficient as our environment grows.
    31 minutes ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Submitted

    native integration with CyberArk

    Instana currently lacks native integration with CyberArk, a leading enterprise privileged access management (PAM) and secret management platform. To support secure deployments and align with common enterprise security requirements, Instana needs f...
    about 4 hours ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

    View costs by FY breakdown in Cloudability and Apptio BI

    Currently costs can only be viewed by calendar year. Several customer finance teams have asked for the ability to view cost breakdowns by FY in dashboards and widgets.
    about 5 hours ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

    End to End Recommendations, assignments and tracking in a single view

    As an end user, I need organized recommendation in user readable format (Example: Compute / Database week end shutdown, Volume Upgrade etc). Grouping all the items under rightsizing is confusing. As an end user, I need to easily navigate the recom...
    about 7 hours ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation 0 Submitted

    Option to Ingest Only Host Metrics on Instana Agents (Disable All Sensors)

    Summary Provide a configuration option to allow Instana Agents to collect only host-level metrics (CPU, memory, disk, network, etc.) while disabling all automatic sensors and application monitoring. This mode should be configurable either: via E...
    about 18 hours ago in Instana / Agent 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...
    2 days 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.
    2 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

    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...
    3 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

    Need Air-gapped support for the k8s IDOT - Self-Hosted Custom Edition

    Since October 2025, the FIS(Fidelity Information Services) customer has been working to enable distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry (OTel) integration to achieve end‑to‑end traceability across Istio, Envoy Proxy, HAProxy and related components....
    3 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

    Allow Napalm integration to take in arguments

    At this time, the Napalm integration does not accept optional arguments for it's drivers. This idea will add a field to the block or authentication to allow users to provide these arguments. The specific use case from the case was to be able to us...
    3 days ago in Concert Workflows 0 Submitted

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