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Adding the ability to filter IBM DataPower entities by IBM MQ v9+ objects

Dynamic focus query supports only filtering by appliance, cluster, domain or service objects. It would be useful to have the option to filter IBM MQ v9+ objects using name and status (see the idea INSTANA-I-3384), e.g., entity.ibmdatapower.qmv9.na...
9 months ago in Instana / DataPower 2 Future consideration

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

Can we have capability to map other relevant (non-compute) charges like network back to the OCI cluster ?

Hi Team, Can we have capability to map other relevant (non-compute) charges like network back to the OCI cluster ? In other words, right now, we are able to view the non-compute of clusters of other CSPs - AWS and GCP but not for OCI. For OCI, ONL...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Submitted

Adding status metrics for the IBM MQ v9+ object

The sensor for IBM Data Power and the object IBM MQ v9+ supports only Back-End Active Connections and Front-End Active Connections metrics. However it is important to know the status of the object because it has a tendency to shut down when IBM MQ...
9 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Kubernetes Metric Agent API Key Rotation

Cloudability includes functionality to showback Kubernettes cluster costs for GCP (GKE) and Azure (AKS). In order to gather the required metrics to calculate cluster costs, an agent must be installed on each cluster. As part of the agent installat...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Persistent Volume and Network cost and usage to be properly reflected in the tool

We’re interested in both Persistent Volume and Network cost and usage be properly reflected in the tool. We’re using Container Insights quite a bit now as we’re appreciating the functionality; however, we’re not able to do the comparison and track...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Needs more information

Request for advanced monitoring for DataPower

Request for advanced monitoring for DataPower. Sysdig exporters are available for both Redis and RabbitMQ. A Bank is seeking similar type IBM cloud workload monitoring for DataPower.. Monitoring and around CPU, Memory, I/O Disk, Monitoring the num...
5 months ago in Instana / DataPower / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Allow Surfacing of the Workload data points in Reporting

The workload data points within Container Insights are very helpful for reviewing the cost and (over)provisioning within each namespace; while the data can to an extent be manually extracted from the Container Insights page, having workload level ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 2 Needs more information

Data storage to be also available with the metric agent for clusters

Data storage to be also available with the metric agent for clusters
7 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Needs more information