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Create a new standard role for Credentials only

In some cases, for MSPs, the customer has not yet moved to a CSP/MSP agreement within the hyperscalers. In those cases, the customers own their credentials and environment in the hyperscaler. If the customer is planning to move to a CSP/MSP agreem...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Future consideration

On IBM AIX, Instana should not count filecache (completely) as "used_memory"

AIX by default uses available memory as filecache (between limits set by parameters minperm% and maxperm%), usually up to 90% of the total memory size. When the applications use only a small portion of available memory, the remainder (or large par...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Add Comments to Price Book Rules

Adding comments to price book rules would make it easier to track the intended effects of each price book rule along with changes and adjustments made over time.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 1 Future consideration

Enable MSP Control Over Sample Dashboards During User Creation

In MSP and reseller environments, MSPs often manage AWS reservations and savings plans on behalf of their customers. Currently, the EC2 reservation sample dashboard is enabled by default for all newly created users at the customer level and cannot...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Future consideration

Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana

Title: Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana Details: IsBank would like to monitor and be able to create events on AIX hosts regards to the metrics below: - CPU run queue - NFS filesystem usage - Raw disk (not filesystem) utilization, for hdisks, read...
11 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Need to enhance the AIX / LPAR monitoring as the basic monitoring is not sufficient to understand the performance problems.

After speaking to the IBM Power Sales team, existing AIX metrices are not sufficient even when enhanced with the IBM pHMC sensor metrices. The customers are relying on the vmstat/iostat/nmon commands to extract reports and do manual work of assess...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Default Dashbaord Assignement at Scale

Customers need the ability to set default dashboards at scale, either globally for all users or by user group. The current system requires manual configuration for each individual user through the UI, with no API support for automation. Proposed S...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Future consideration

change of column from Azure CSP cost report for customer price

We have an environment where the end customer pricing is already configured in Azure CSP. The Azure cost exports contain a column AX "paygCostInBillingCurrency" with the end customer pricing. Cloudability currently only uses the column AU "costInB...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 1 Future consideration

For the Power systems, need local agent in VIOS similar to what others are certified for in https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/viewdocument/vios-recognized-list

Local agent installations on the VIOS on Power Servers will help to fetch metrices at more granular level than the minimum 5m offered by the HMC. After discussion with Power sales team, this remains one of the main bottleneck to position Instana a...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Future consideration

IBM PowerHMC Sensor - Enable Logical Partition "state" metric for custom event

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the LPAR status when it is not running.
about 2 years ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 0 Future consideration