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Top results by cost cannot be obtained in graphical form

Hi, Currently ApptioBI has provision of limiting the results by top cost consumption. Eg: top 5 services by cost or top 5 products by cost in graphical form. But cloudability doesn't have this function where we can limit top 5 or 10 resources by c...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Needs more information

Four decimal places

My budget owners needs to have a field type of "Money" to be with four decimal places. Currently two is fine for US Dollar but with our global market we need to go to the 4th.
21 days ago in Targetprocess / Budgeting 2 Needs more information

Alerting on 95% Percentile

Add ability to alert when the X percentile is crosses Y percent. For example, when the 95% percentile crosses 70% over X time.
14 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Needs more information

Enable adding synthetic indicators to object types created by IP-SLA Poller

When IP-SLA Polled is turn on it generates object types with multiple indicators but Add Synthetic Indicator Type is greyed out.
23 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Needs more information

Remote monitoring for kubernetes cluster

Be able to observe a kubernetes cluster without deploying instana agent (pods) in the cluster (agentless).
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Needs more information

Ability to Use Multiple “Device Metadata” Variable in a Report

While exploring Data Insight, we found only a single “Device Metadata” variable value could be used as a filter for each report. The ask is to allow multiple “Device Metadata” to be used in given report.
18 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Needs more information

Start basic remote monitoring for detected unmonitored hosts

Capability to refine unmonitored services and be able to create an infrastructure representation of still unmonitored host (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.302?topic=instana-monitoring-applications#the-unmonitored-infrastruct...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Needs more information

Report memory used in AWS RDS to reports and dashboards

Seeing the amount of used memory alongside CPU would help customers make an informed decision around rightsizing and other utilization / consumption metrics as to how best optimize their workloads.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Needs more information

Consistent Proxy Support Across All Instana Agent Sensors via configuration.yaml and Environment Variables

While some Instana agent sensors, such as the AWS sensor, already support proxy configuration, this functionality is not consistently available across all sensors. In particular, sensors like Prometheus do not currently support proxy settings, eit...
4 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Needs more information

seperate UserRoles for GUI Login and CLI/SSO

In JazzSM the smadmin Roles are used for GUI Login, using cli Commands the SSO Integration(like ASM). For security reasons, it will be usefull to seperate users - which can login to GUI - which can use cli commands - which can be used to SSO-Integ...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Needs more information