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Add information to Vendor Credential page explaining reason for advanced credentials

Currently we do not see any official documentation from IBM about what features are impacted by what we call Advanced Credentialling. It would be very helpful to add a text box in the application UI somewhere in the credentialling page explaining ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Need improved prereq checking for Standard Edition

There are a number of common problems that we've seen with customer installs where better prereq checking could have prevented an installation failure. We would like to see the prereq checker improved to check for additional prereqs. The following...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Future consideration

Support multiple organizations in GCP during credentialling

In GCP a construct called organizations exists. These are similar to Azure tenants whereby a domain name is wrapped around a set of projects. We need to be able to support multiple organizations during the credentialling process in Cloudability. A...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Clickhouse Retention based on age of data

We would like to move the data on the clickhouse based on the age of the data. For a monitoring tool the most recent data is the most important. But older data gets not looked at as often. So in an effort to reduce cost for storage we want to be a...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Future consideration

Add support for Dynatrace usage and billing data to be ingested into Cloudability

Please consider adding support for Dynatrace cost and usage data ingestion into Cloudability. Dynatrace is a popular tool and one of the more complex SaaS solutions to manage costs. Being able use Cloudability for this would strengthen the value p...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Allow seeing and credentialing Azure subscriptions in Cloudability even if they have no cost data, so commitments purchased in "commitment-only" subscriptions can be ingested/displayed

Some customers create dedicated "commitment-only" linked accounts or subscriptions in which they only purchase reserved instances and savings plans but don't operate resources. This is a best practice for mature FinOps organizations because it max...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Carbon calculation updates - factor in flexibility/history archive or rebaseline for customer operational processes

The recent update to the Carbon calculations in CLDY has highlighted an improvement area that would help with customer adoption. Customers who baselined using the previous calcs would have seen their numbers jump 4x with the recent change to the c...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Other / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Tracking Snowflake prepaid credits

In the case of Snowflake and Azure Databricks, we prepay for a set number of capacity units. In the case of Databricks, it is DBUs. Each job that runs, etc, has a DBU spend attached to it. This is the same for Snowflake. It comes through as $0 dol...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Proposal: Introduce Yellow Checkmark for Partial Azure Credential Permissions

Team, From what I understand about Azure credential behavior today: 1) For basic credentials, a green tick appears when the minimum permissions to pull billing data are present. However, key permissions like billing:EnrollmentReader (alghough not ...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Need a way to disable GeoDB database for air-gapped environments

Dear colleagues, Customer uses custom deployment of Instana in air-gapped environment, they see error tat GeoDB database can’t be loaded in eum-acceptor, self-monitoring agent reports it to dashboard and this way the event started to bother them. ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration