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Ability to see available and utiltized GPU cores in container insights

Customers would like to see the available and utilized GPU cores in container insights. They can see Idle in costs but not in utilization.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Future consideration

Container recommendations should include recommendations where limits = request for all resources and one where they are not identical.

Customers would like to see recommendations where they can guarantee that the workload will have the resources as well as ones where the ability is variable (limit does not equal requested). Different workloads have different needs. It would be he...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Track status of provisioned Clusters

Knowing which clusters have been provisioned and their status (active, inactive, no data received) would help in determining how many clusters are not currently capturing data. Currently, only clusters that have sent information are available. Cus...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

API Support for Cloudability Containers – Metrics Agent Observability

We greatly value the recently released metrics agent observability tool and believe that enabling API support would unlock even greater potential.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Under review

Request for Instana’s authentication function

The customer would like to request to enable the use of multiple (at least two) Azure AD tenants for SAML authentication IdP. Our customer is using two Azure AD tenants as the authentication provider. One is for headquarter, the other is for IT su...
4 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Under review

Export of containers from Insights 2.0 - column name obfuscation. Needs to reflect the actual column names from the Insights page.

Very difficult to read column name in export as it presents, can't figure out what cost belongs to what
2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Needs more information

Reprocess and refetch K8 tags and labels

Issue : Customer has added new K8 label and tags however we are blocked as currently we don't support historical retrieval of Kubernetes labels for Container Cost Allocation . Reprocessing and refetching of K8 labels is possible only once at initi...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Add support for Kubernetes Hierarchical Namespaces (HNC)

Engineering/dev teams need to leverage HNC parent-child structure to manage k8s resources Enabling rollup of cost & usage data from the child to the parent level Engineering/dev teams should have the ability to drill down to the k8s component ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Make TPU and GPU information from GCP available in reporting

Customers would like to see the size and memory capacity of their TPUs and GPUs. Understanding cost footprint associated with TPU and GPU sizes and capabilities is important for optimization and planning for the future.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Future consideration

Allow customization to the container cost allocation algorithm

Currently the cost allocation is based on the instances used in the cluster. Customers would also like to be able to tailor the cost allocation for specific clusters or be able to assign their own weight for some workload types. Possible configura...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Under review