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Ability to Report on the Azure Recommendations

The ability to generate a report that compares existing commitments against recommended commitments, enabling us to identify under-provisioning or over-provisioning across different workloads.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 2 Needs more information

More than one subscription in a one Cloud Service Agents

In the documentation there is a issue to use one single agent for each Azure subscription as we are able to create a Reading Service Accounts for the whole Azure Tenant and have many subscrioptions; will it possible to configure an agent in order ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 5 Planned for future release

Provide the way to identify the detailed component list of Instana in the console

Now in Instana agent page of the Instana Console, agent bootstrap version ( ex. 1.2.39 ) and agent version ( ex. 2025.10.09.1647 ) is listed for each Instana agent. This combination seems necessary and sufficient, but not. Agent bootstrap version ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Commitment Support for Azure VMware Solution

Commitment Support for Azure VMware Solution
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Commitment Support OCI

Adding supported commitment types across OCI instances as well. It would help us get commitment recommendations from OCI as well. We have significant amount of spending on OCI as well
10 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 4 Future consideration

Link to report from the recommendation details for AWS RDS

AWS RDS is missing a link to the report where it goes into detail which resources would benefit from the reservation. The other services from AWS have this feature.

Ability to extract and subscribe to Commitments based on Account name or ID

Data extracts do not contain account name. No way to subscribe to expirations based on account name. would be helpful to have this data available so its easier to manage.
10 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Effective scope identification for Azure Compute RIs in Commitment Portfolio

Currently, it's not possible to see in Reservation Portfolio what is the scope for a paricular Azure Compute reservation (Subscription or Resource Group). CLDY shows where a reservation has been purchased at the subscription/account level. It woul...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Addition of disabling stack trace retrieval for monitored processes in InstanaAgent configuration

Regarding the inquiry made in IBM Case: TS018068058, I have received a response stating that when retrieving Java traces, stack traces are obtained each time a span is captured. To disable stack trace retrieval, it is necessary to configure the JV...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Server/Agent-Level Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in Instana

Hi Team,Currently in Instana, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) can be applied at the Websites, Mobile Apps, Business Process and Applications etc... levels. However, there is no provision to assign access permissions at the server or agent level. ...
4 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Agent 1 Not under consideration