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Deploy and upgrade all the components in Instana Backend on Openshift with a single Operator

We need to simplify the upgrading and deploying procedure for INSTANA Backend on Openshift, A standard Openshift Operator could be the solution. It should allow to install the components and to upgrade it and the components as a standard Operator ...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Add Databricks cluster names to Cloudability for Databricks GCP

Cloudability Databricks GCP connector is not bringing in Databricks cluster names. As result it is difficult to use Cloudability to understand which Databricks GCP cluster contributed to costs. Cloudability shows Databricks Azure cluster names. Da...

Monitor WebSphere Application Server Thread Usage Percentage with Alerting and Exclusion Support

To further enhance operational visibility, we request an enhancement to monitor thread usage in WAS as a percentage metric with alerting capabilities. Specifically, we propose the following features: Monitor the number of free threads in each WebS...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Provide minimal Helm charts for Instana Enterprise Operator and Instana Backend

Summary Our CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins) and artifact-mirroring process are Helm-centric. Today, Instana Enterprise/Backend requires copying individual images and using kubectl instana to render/apply manifests. We request official minimal Helm charts...
26 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Unused Business Mapping, Account Groups, and Tags – Identification & Housekeeping

Currently, customers create tags, account groups, and business mappings that are applied across reports and dashboards. However, over time, some of these objects may no longer be in use—either because the business context has changed, projects hav...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Under review

Data Reprocessing for Business Mappings

Need to create a support ticket to request a reprocessing of the data for Business Mappings (and wait 24 hours after the processing)
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Under review

Quick Currency Switch Button

Overview Currently, users must navigate through multiple steps in the user preferences menu to change their preferred currency. This process is time-consuming and interrupts workflow, especially for users who frequently need to view data in differ...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Under review

Consistency between BM statement names and how they are displayed

I have created Business Mapping with capitalisation e.g. Account-Operations or BT, but when utilising BM in dashboards they all appear formatted by Cloudability to all lower case . This inconsistency is confusing for users and capitalisation is us...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Under review

Use IBM clickhouse with AWS S3 Service

We would like use AWS S3 Service with Instana clickhouse for warm/cold data to improve cost effectiveness
6 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Pull all columns from vendor billing and allow custom dimensions based on field

Currently, the Transaction Type and Seller Name columns are not being ingested by Cloudability from the BQ table, as these columns were newly introduced by GCP. Having these columns will simplify reporting significantly, as all marketplace items c...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Under review