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Direct query access to native cloud billing fields

Cloudability currently abstracts and normalizes all billing data from providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP. While this enables unified cost visibility, it limits users' ability to validate and interpret data in "like-for-like" terms with the orig...
about 20 hours ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Way of reporting workload optimization tasks & savings that aren't in scope for Cloudability Rightsizing

We’ve found a gap in how we report workload optimization savings that Cloudability doesn’t cover today. If an optimization is not a Rightsize Opportunity in Cloudability, then we cannot create a ticket, and so Rightsize ROI does not count the savi...
about 20 hours ago in Cloudability / Other Submitted

Named Custom Date Ranges for Reporting

Today, users can choose from standard absolute and relative date ranges (Last 7 Days, Month to Date, custom start/end dates, etc.) within each widget's or the UI's Time period selector. This is powerful but introduces friction for organizations wh...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Under review

Ability to use filename of loaded data in HTML component

We have some automated file loads which include a timestamp in the filename. The timestamp is relevant for teams during critical month-end periods to understand what numbers they are looking at in Apptio reporting. We would like to be able to add ...
8 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio Submitted

SSL Support for DB2 integration in Cloud Pak for AIOps

In a troubleshooting case that we have open, we have been informed that the DB2 integration for Cloud Pak for AIOps does not support SSL connection to the database. The security need for SSL should be self-evident; AIOps event data contains propri...
3 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Under review

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...
8 days ago in Instana / Access Control Needs more information

Add Instana instrumentation support for GeneXus HTTP client libraries (including Ron’s Http-Client)

Problem A customer application built with GeneXus is being monitored using Instana. The application performs outbound HTTP calls to backend services (Bantotal services) using the HTTP client implementation provided by the GeneXus runtime. During a...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing Under review

Configuration option to preserve ifOperStatus data polled during ifLastChange updates

In the current implementation, SevOne discards all polled data for a given polling interval whenever it detects an update to ifLastChange. Although this behaviour is designed to maintain data consistency, it introduces a significant limitation for...
24 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Under review

Application based smart alerts overview that shows tiggered issues

Hi, As we are implementing Instana to monitor a rather big environment with tons of apps, devs, ops and teams, Smart Alerts seem to be a good way to reduce workload due to the generic nature of the configuration. It is unusable though as it is ATM...
about 1 hour ago in Instana / Application perspectives Submitted

Enable more flexible and customizable anomaly alerting to reduce noise and improve relevance for cost monitoring teams.

Enhance anomaly detection to allow alerts triggered by a percentage (%) threshold to also require a minimum dollar ($) value, ensuring alerts are only sent when the anomaly exceeds a meaningful cost impact and reducing low‑value notification noise.
about 3 hours ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection Submitted

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