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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...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Planned for future release

MongoDb infrastructure monitoring enhancements

New features for MongoDB infrastructure monitoring
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Planned for future release

To show Savings under Azure Savings Compute plan in commitment portfolio

Customer would like to see the Savings they are making on their account under Commitment Portfolio. As of now, they do see details related to Utilization, Hourly commit and Remaining cost, however having the option to see the savings happening wou...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 5 Planned for future release

Node Status

We have recently onboarding our Openshift Cluster to Instana for infra monitoring. Today we faced an issue where a node was not in Ready state and hence it generated a lot of incidents related to the Pods in that node. We managed to find the event...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Planned for future release

Commitment Management 2.0 for Azure Commitment Recommendations

The commitment recommendations functionality in AWS and GCP is great. I would like to see this supported in Azure.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Planned for future release

Commitment Management 2.0 for Azure Commitment Portfolio

The commitment portfolio functionality in AWS and GCP is great. I would like to see this supported in Azure.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Planned for future release

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

Better unified savings reporting

Commitment reporting Optimization ROI Reliability UI Filtering Time Selection
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Authentication mechanism used for the AWS Observer

One of our customer has a security policy in place, that enforces the following mechanism to be used when accessing AWS: The mechanism is to assume an IAM role in the AWS account using the 'sts:AssumeRoleWithSAML' AWS API call. This returns a set ...
over 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Planned for future release

Workload Planning Integration with Commitment Recommendations

It would be great if you could keep track of workload planning in Cloudability. For instance if we want to make a commitment on aggregate level we need to validate that the underlying resources will remain running, this requires input from the bus...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Planned for future release