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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

Enable Instana Agent Sampling

Enable Instana Agent to sample data e.g. traces. Best to do by customer configuration setting.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Planned for future release

Implement namespace exclusion functionality for new Kubernetes sensor (k8sensor)

Problem: Current IBM Instana Kubernetes sensor lacks namespace exclusion functionality, causing uncontrolled data collection and billing increases from system/excluded namespaces. Business Impact: Organizations cannot control monitoring scope, lea...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Embedded AI/ML System for Automated Business Mapping Suggestions in Apptio Cloudability

The proposed feature introduces an embedded Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) engine within Apptio Cloudability that continuously learns from customer-specific resource tags and usage patterns. Based on this learning, the system...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Support for PHP Sensor on native IBM i agent.

Any customer using PHP on IBM i would likely benefit from having support for this service.
9 months ago in Instana / IBM i / PHP / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Disabling instrumentation for a specific pod and jdbc connection

Hi, We request you the possibility to disable tracing for an specific pod or for any specific jdbc connection. Right now the only wat to disable tracing for a pod is by doing ignore processes. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/curr...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

Uninstalling agent should remove all files and libraries

When uninstalling the Instana agent customer expect that everything related to the Instana agent should get removed. This is not the case for PHP monitoring. After you uninstall the agent there is still Instana files outside the agent folder that ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 4

Tracing for COBOL/C/C++

I want to add custom instrumentation to a COBOL/C/C++ process to hook into the call and instrumentations pipeline in Instana enabling end-to-end traceability from our front-end through all the tiers and including the SQL queries in SQL server. In ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Allocate static costs or credits to a specific business unit to ensure actuals against your budget is accurate in CFP

We have a couple of active scenarios: #1 we've got vendors who contribute to cloud cost that have no formal integration into Cloudability. In those instances the costs stay the same every month and its charged to a specific business unit, we want ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Planned for future release

enable the feature to enlarge the column in Cost sharing

Issue: customer cannot enlarge this first column resulting into the statement name are truncated. Issue is happening at : Go to CloudabilityGo to Organize -> Cost sharingGo to Explorerwe are able to decrease and increase the length of first col...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Planned for future release