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Enable Datadog account and costs to be visible via Account Group views and definitions

Enable Datadog account and costs to be visible via Account Group views and definitions Currently when I go to Organize/Account Groups then I do not see any Accounts for Vendor Datadog. I have tried sorting and scanning the list of accounts. no luc...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

We'd like to limit users with limited infrastructure scope can create custom events that may apply to entities withing their team's scope. Currently, there is no limitation at all

Custom events in Instana are governed by global permissions, meaning there is no granular RBAC control for this feature. As a result, users with limited infrastructure scope can create custom events that may apply to entities outside their team’s ...
3 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Capability to sort Day of Week dimension in correct order

Today, when selecting day of week, you can choose ascending or descending but that only changes ordering based on alphabetical order. It would make sense to have an option to ensure day of week is always in the correct order.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Consolidate Resource Name across all CSPs into a single dimension

AWS uses the "name" tag, Azure needs a regex business mapping and GCP/SaaS platforms use Resource Name. Consolidating all vendors into the Resource Name field would make it easier to report on and use in business mappings.
4 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Persistent filter from Infrastructure to Analyze Infrastructure

Hi team, When we navigate on the Infrastructure section and use Filters, we expect that the Analyze Infrastructure Button that is present in the UI will work the same way as it works for Applications, where we can jump from every level (Applicatio...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Analyze Infrastructure - Name Display improvement

Hi team, when we have entities with long names, they are not fully displayed in the Analyze Infrastructure View (see screenshot attached). In this case, as we identify the entities by the Suffix, we don't see it at all in the result table. We are ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Enable customers to upload Excel/CSV/JSON files directly in the UI to automatically create or update Business Mapping statements with built-in validation and one-click rollback

Today, users cannot upload Excel/CSV/JSON files directly in the UI to create or update Business Mapping statements.Because of this limitation CSMs/TAM/Admins must manually convert customer files into statements. Large Business Mapping updates (doz...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Add subgrouping to Infrastructure View

Hi team, our customer would like to have the possibility of having more than one-level of grouping in the Infrastructure View (something like sub-zone concept), so they can manage the complexity of their infrastructure Platform and have a better v...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Allow more options for Perspective and Grouping in the Infrastructure View

Hi team, we know currently we can use Zones, which are the default display in the Infrastructure View, and then we can use Host or Container Grouping based on a defined set of attributes like CPU, OS, K8S namespace, etc. We explored the Tag Prefix...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted