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Many customers are moving to private 4/5G networks, would like the collectors for this to be productized for PCMD & CCMS data collection

IBM SevOne would benefit as this is a new and growing opportunity
2 days ago in SevOne / Other Submitted

Expose upload-health metrics (success/failure/retry/last-success) on the FinOps Agent's Prometheus /metrics endpoint

Container costs are a core part of our overall cloud spend, so we depend on the FinOps Agent uploading reliably to Cloudability. Today the agent's /metrics endpoint (metrics.enabled=true) only exposes generic Go runtime/process metrics (go_, proce...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Kubecost/Advanced Containers Submitted

Critical OTEL Connectors missing in IDOT

Current IDOT v1.320.3 which is latest and stable, we see there are no connectors available to use for transforming processed data into metrics. >instana-otelcol.exe components >connectors: [] It is helpful to have the below connectors to be ...
2 days ago in Instana / Integrations Submitted

File based monitoring to check if the file exists

Currently the file plugin in Instana agent does not have the capability to check if a file exist or not. For critical monitoring scenarios, it is important to check if a file exist or not and alert for production environment.
2 days ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

The current SNOWFLAKE plugin allows only STANDARD SQL. We need a feature to run STORED PROCEDURE

When a CALL, COPY TO or EXEC statements are called in Standard SQL, then get error stating AWKSNW004E An error occurred during the submission of the job in Action Info. The message is "Statement not supported." . SNOWFLAKE plugin doesnt not a supp...
2 days ago in Workload Automation Submitted

the font size of the column-picker slicer customization feature

the font size of the column-picker slicer customization feature, this will be really useful to align the UI as per the report size specially in New reporting studio.
2 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio Submitted

Add Coverage Threshold to Commitment Alerts

Currently, commitment alerts only cover expiring commitments and utilization thresholds. However, Coverage is also an important KPI that customers would want to be alerted on. Please consider adding support for Coverage-based alerts as well. Thanks!
3 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Submitted

Equals (=) Operator in Smart Alert Threshold

With in the Smart Alerts, for any metrics that holds multiple values and we need alert for only one value and this functionality needs equals ( = ) operator which is not available in Smart Alerts. Having equals operator available for thresholds wi...
3 days ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Allow filter for "Invoice Date" within a "Dashboard"

This is useful for many reasons. Here is what prompted this idea request: 1. Cross-charge reconciliation - Applying "Invoice Date" as a filter to the entire dashboard will allow us to immediately reconcile invoiced costs for a given month. We can ...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Submitted

Custom Plugin Monitoring Attributes unavailable in Events & Alerts

When windows os services are added to monitoring using host plugin as below, it discovers service name, service state but these important parameters are not available to be used in Events and Alert. Service State is available as metric to create a...
3 days ago in Instana / Alert Submitted