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Count Metrics in Apptio BI

Count Metrics: Create a visualization/metric to display the total count of account numbers, including unique account numbers
18 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI Not under consideration

Request for Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud) Support in Turbonomic

Dear Turbonomic Production Team, Turbonomic currently lacks support for Alibaba Cloud, and I strongly believe that incorporating this support would be invaluable, especially given the significant presence of Alibaba Cloud in the Chinese market. No...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Not under consideration

Request for Local User Registration (A feature to add users without requiring an SMTP server)

When adding (inviting) a local user to Instana, an SMTP server is required. In an air-gapped environment, there may be cases where the Self-Hosted Instana Backend does not have an SMTP server or cannot communicate with one. I would like to propose...
5 months ago in Instana / Access Control Not under consideration

Allow for more than five metrics within a smart alert

Within version 1.323.853 smart alerts GA, the wizard only allows for five metrics. In our case, we had seven file systems that we wanted to alert upon, but had to create a second smart alert to contain the balance. In the preview version, we had a...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert Not under consideration

Enhancing the RUM(Real User Monitoring) of Instana by the feature like Dynatrace's Visual Complete.

Currently, Instana’s "onLoad time" metric does not include XHR (XMLHttpRequest) or fetch requests that occur after the initial page load. The "onLoad time" is specifically defined as the time from fetchStart to loadEventEnd according to the browse...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring Not under consideration

Searching a table you created in a Apptio BI Report

Searching a table you created in a Apptio BI Report
18 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI Not under consideration

Logs for all levels (blocks) in concert workflow

The client need to export logs of workflow in any format files (for ex, csv). They want output of all blocks used in workflows in logs so that they can debug in detail. Currently, this feature is not available. The Client cannot use debug feature ...
3 months ago in Concert Workflows Not under consideration

Commitment support for migration from Azure EA to MCA Account

Start date & reporting period: Because Azure doesn't transfer historical billing data during an EA→MCA migration, Cloudability re-derives migrated reservations' start dates from the first records seen under the MCA account rather than the orig...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Not under consideration

Instana Agent Scheduler: Enabling/Disabling of Sensors based on Trading Schedules & Market Holidays

In the Financial Services Sector (especially Securities and Brokerage), IT operations strictly follow Trading Market Hours (e.g., Pre-market, In-market, Post-market, Off-peak) and Market Holidays (including unexpected holidays such as Typhoon/Weat...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

Expose Waste for GCP Resource‑based Committed Use Discounts (RCUDs) in Cloudability Reporting

Currently, it's not possible to accurately identify waste for GCP RCUDs in Cloudability reporting. This is due to limitations in how GCP exposes RCUD data via a credit‑based billing model, which prevents waste from being derived in the same way as...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Not under consideration