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Remember/Default pivot for table widgets

When you define a table widget and select a desired pivot the later is not saved, this becomes inconvenient when you have a dashboard with multiple tables that require the same pivot. The desire is to be able define a default pivot when creating a...
about 11 hours ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Enable metric "Cost (Shared)" in "Reports, Dashboards", currently available in "Container Reporting".

Committing cross-charges based on "Cost (Shared)" are not visible to users in "Reports, Dashboards". The current visible metrics in "Reports, Dashboards" are insufficient: (i) Cost (Utilized), (ii) Cost (Idle), and (iii) Cost (Fairshare) The metri...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Respective Color in Reporting Cloudability & Apptio BI for each CSP

Respective colors would be helpful to keep continuity and avoid confusion
1 day ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

View costs by FY breakdown in Cloudability and Apptio BI

Currently costs can only be viewed by calendar year. Several customer finance teams have asked for the ability to view cost breakdowns by FY in dashboards and widgets.
4 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

OAuth authentication for MCP server

Currently the MCP server uses API token authentication, it would be nice to have other auth methods available, mainly OAuth.
6 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure Sentinel

Azure Sentinel prices based on logging data and how long those logs are kept. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/pricing/microsoft-sentinel#section-master-oc2d43
7 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Database Consistent Scaling -- AWS RDS & Aurora

Many organizations have a business requirement to scale DB clusters e.g. Read/Write replicas with consistent sizing, to enable functionality like Reader > Writer endpoint failover. Similar to the existing consistent scaling for volumes & vi...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

CPU Utilization Graph Broken Out by Subsystem with Stacked Visualization & Color Customization

Customer is requesting the ability to break out CPU utilization by application subsystem or service and display it as a stacked bar chart. The customer also requests the ability to customize color assignments for each subsystem in the stacked view.
8 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Future consideration

Enable Native Trace / Call Payload Visualization and Aggregation in Instana Dashboards

Problem Statement Customers using Instana for application performance monitoring cannot natively visualize or aggregate trace/call‑level payload data (custom tags, request/response attributes, business fields) in dashboards. While payload data can...
10 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Option to distribute Orchestrator discovered devices to specific peers similar to WiFi

In WiFi plugin collector has the option to choose the peers where the AP's should be distributed Similarly, there is no such option for the SDWAN plugin or SDN plugin to allow distribution to specific peers.
10 days ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 2 Future consideration