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Azure and GCP utilization metrics needed in Reports in Dashboard in Cldy and ABI

Many customers have a need for utilisation metrics for Azure and GCP in Cldy - its been called out as a feature deficit for years. Its needed for customers so they can dive deep into longer term (like over a year) metrics util on instances to see ...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards / Resource Inventory 1 Not under consideration

Ability for Cloudability to support more than one currency per environment

Currently, Cloudability supports multi-currency for customers if they need to convert all cost to one single currency, but there's no ability to toggle between multiple currencies. This is a struggle for customers with users in multiple countries ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Not under consideration

Can we have the feature to do utilization reporting for OCI at the compartment level? Right now, we have it only for AWS

Right now, for OCI resources, we are able to see compartment level cost using the newly created dimensions like compartment level name and compartment level ID. But several users in our Org., were looking for the capability of utilization reportin...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Not under consideration

Transaction traceability using APPC architecture

This new functionality allows us to obtain and view complete traces of transactions sent from the distributed environment to the mainframe. The benefit is for all those clients who have a mainframe and still use this architecture as a means of c...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z 2 Not under consideration

Group by functionality with some widgets does not work as expected. The sum of the values is no longer accurate at all sometimes

Group by functionality with some widgets does not work as expected. The sum of the values is no longer accurate at all sometimes
7 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Not under consideration

More of a Bug than an idea. Currently unutilized part of a Savings plan shows Reservations class as "Standard" which is a class suitable for RIs.

For a customer Reservation Class is showing as "Standard" despite the Lease Type being Savings Plan. This happens specifically for Transaction Type "Recurring Charge". Implecation being that the unused part of a Savings Plan is being tagged under ...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 1 Not under consideration

Instana needs to send notifications/alerts when active directory certificates expire in OpenShift on Z

Without this notification, it's a manual effort to keep checking for expired certificates
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

SNA application support for Instana on z

Instana cannot trace SNA application.Please add the support to trace by Instana, or provide the method to trace it by the customizing application programs, such as adding the tracing subroutine.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / IBM Z 1 Not under consideration

Call tag values always treated as String

Our implementation of tracking flows into Db2 for z/OS via JDBC , the Db2 for z/OS and Z Common Data Provider are required. Once installed and configured, we provide metrics (such as cpu_time, smf_id, io_wait, subsystem_id, elapsed_time, lock_wait...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Cross teams/areas / DB2 / IBM Z / Metric Store / Other Tracers / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Link the Trace ID from Instana UI to external ELK dashboard

For Instana monitoring z/OS application, there are more detail monitoring metrics from z/OS platform and usually be avialable in ELK stack. The trace data catpured by Instana on z/OS has some correlation with the transactional metrics collected by...
over 2 years ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Not under consideration