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Add Usage Family/Usage type to Resource Inventory

We request adding a field of Usage Family or Usage type to each line in the resource inventory in order to be able to separate any storage cost for example from actual instance usage. This can help especially when constructing reports via API call...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Planned for future release

Cloning of Application Perspectives

We are in the process of creating Application Perspectives based on the namespaces in the cluster. Each cluster has 100's of namespaces and each namespaces has services ranging from 5-15. We are creating application perspectives at a service level...
3 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Conditional or Correlated Alert Logic in Instana (e.g., “Alert on X unless Y is high”)

We would like to have the ability to define conditional or correlated alert logic in Instana. For example, we need to trigger an alert when there are too many 404 responses on a specific endpoint, but only if the number of login requests is not hi...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Process monitoring dashboard

We are using IBM ELM suite of applications on distributed environment and we have around 19 different applications running currently on our environment. We want to monitor that all our process on production are up and running fine. Hence we wanted...
9 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / User Interface 1 Future consideration

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 ...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards / Resource Inventory 1 Not under consideration

Add Resource Name to GCP Resource Inventory (Compute Engine)

Resource Name is needed to ensure clear identification of GCE resources in Cloudability Resource ID which comes from GCP billing data is not clear enough (it looks more like a path and it doesn't contain the resource name) Resource Name field is c...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Add ‘last seen’ date to Resource Inventory.

Problem:Right now the resource inventory has the resource state, but for terminated resources there is no way to tell when the resource was terminated. Request:To provide visibility into what time frame the resource inventory data represents and w...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Future consideration

Disk usage metric for EBS and GPD

Currently we cannot look at the disk usage data for EBS and GPD, most of the disks are over provisioned and we pay for what we allocate than what we use. Cloudability is showing these metrics for RDS in AWS, why cant we do it for EBS and GPD with ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Dark Mode

Instana needs a dark theme for the browser.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Planned for future release

Add the ability to 'View in Analyze' from widgets in custom dashboards.

When you create custom dashboard, there is no way to 'View in Analyze' when you identify a problem without leaving the dashboard completely. In a custom dashboard, your only options are to 'Zoom to time range' and 'Highlight on all charts'. I have...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / User Interface 1 Future consideration