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MongoDb infrastructure monitoring enhancements

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

Bringing the 'Invoice Unit' field values from AWS CUR into Cloudability

AWS added a new field ('Invoice Unit') in December 2024. This information is in the CUR. This field value does not come into Cloudy through current configuration. The client says that this is a critical field that they want to report on to their e...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 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...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 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...
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

Add GCP "Usage Amount in pricing unit"

When lookiing at the cost and usage data to validate pricing and any applicable discounts, it is useful to have the quanity used in the pricing calcution. If pricing is done in bytes, it should not be converted to GBs for example. When Cldy separa...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2 Planned for future release

Custom Business Metrics on True Cost Explorer

I have had a few prospects and customers ask if they could use custom business metrics in True Cost Explorer since the BMs are their main way of reporting out spend.
11 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Planned for future release

Instana UI has internal feature under Analyze infrastructure called "Graph" to visualize the Host entities combined together . I request this feature to deploy publicly.

I was on call with IBM customer for PHP Tracer showcasing the current support for AWS fargate. I used test-pink environment for the demo where they saw the graph feature of instana available only internally. They showed very keen interest to have ...
6 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

Continuous display of Cassandra Nodes data after Cassandra restart

We notice that when viewing the cassandra node where the underlying pod has been restarted, it doesn't display the data continuously even though the node is the same (i.e. same name). If I select the time before restart, I cannot adjust the time t...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Planned for future release

Ingest Organization structure defined in GCP and AWS

This will allow for better organization of data based on the Organizational Unit Hierarchy defined in GCP and AWS
10 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Planned for future release

Trigger alert from offline event only if there was no restart after a configurable amount of time

Currently, if I create an alert based on an offline event, the alert will immediately be triggered when the entity goes offline. Often an entity is only restarted, so if an alert is generated that would be a false alert. Instead it should be possi...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release