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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

Request for Numeric Event IDs in Instana

Title: Support for Numeric Event IDs in Instana Description: Currently, Instana generates event IDs as alphanumeric strings (UUID-like). While this ensures global uniqueness, it makes integration with external systems (e.g., SIEM, ServiceNow, Splu...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 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...
2 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

Acknowledging alert

Currently, when an alert is triggered in Instana, our operations team receives a notification. While this is a crucial step in our monitoring workflow, we find that the process of acknowledging these alerts is not as streamlined as we would like i...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

After maintenace window no alerts created if host is still unavailable

After monthly patching we have noticed if a maintenance window was put in and the host was patched and rebooted and if Instana sees it as unavailable after the maintenance window has finished we do not get an alert.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 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

IBM MQ MFT: include host names in alert payloads (remote monitoring use case)

When monitoring IBM MQ MFT remotely, alert payloads do not include the hostname where the issue occurred. This request is to include the hostname where issues occur into the alert payload.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / MQ / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Need to be able to threshold using COUNT even if the object is NOT an entity

Currently, Instana allows you to use a COUNT evaluation within the system rules. This allows customers to COUNT entities that meet a certain criteria. For example, count the number of processes that are running. But, there are number of customer u...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Planned for future release

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