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Feature Request: Saved Time Ranges

We would like to request a new feature: the ability to save and name custom time ranges. Currently, when we investigate an incident, we have to manually re-select the exact time frame every time. It is also difficult to share this specific time wi...
7 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Persistent Visibility for Recently Offline Hosts

Summary: When a host goes down in IBM Instana, an alert is generated, and the host is marked as Unmonitored in the Agent view and shown in red on the Infrastructure map. However, after approximately five minutes, the host disappears from both view...
17 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Container Cost Allocation Based on Labels Instead of Namespaces

The customer has over 40 Kubernetes clusters with numerous shared resources within a single namespace across different cost centers. They would like the Kubernetes cost allocation feature to support allocation of resources based on labels, rather ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Enable Export of Events Tab Data to CSV or Provide API Query Builder

Instana's Events tab provides valuable insights into application and infrastructure behavior, but currently lacks a straightforward way to export this data for external analysis. I propose adding one or both of the following features: CSV Export...
13 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Upload Business Mappings via CSV

For many financial teams creating business mappings in the UI is cumbersome and they lack the skills to be able to create JSON. Its been requested that we should provide the ability to upload Business Mapping statements via CSV to Cloudability.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Submitted

Adding OTel collector management to the instana console in self-hosted Instana standard version.

Hi, with the customer's request we raised an IBM ticket to check if the OTEL collector management is possible from the instana console. And the support confirmed that the feature is currently available for SAAS but asked to rais an idea with IBM t...
18 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

This customer is looking for the ability to allocate costs within Cloudability to showback their costs related to their MS 360 Infrastructure stack.

Having this functionality would remove the manual workflow processes today to capture the services and costs associated to provide back to the business and finance teams.
25 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

As a customer, I am looking to integrate data connectors with Cloudability to gather cost, rightsizing and optimization data for OpenStack on-premise.

The purpose of this feature would help our FinOps team bring our entire on-premise and cloud vendor data into a single pane. Currently, our workflow is extensive and extremely manual to integrate capturing metrics for our Openstack fleet. We would...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Extend Cost Sharing functionality

Better Cost Sharing functionality multi-vendor. Cost Sharing in multiple Business Mappings but filtered in one view.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Auto Update for Cost Sharing Rules, when Namespaces are updated.

We would like to use the Cost Sharing Feature based on a Business Dimension to have an automated showback/chargeback process for shared costs in Accounts with Container setups. Therfore we use the feature to split gernal cost (which is not tied to...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted