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Allow more options for Perspective and Grouping in the Infrastructure View

Hi team, we know currently we can use Zones, which are the default display in the Infrastructure View, and then we can use Host or Container Grouping based on a defined set of attributes like CPU, OS, K8S namespace, etc. We explored the Tag Prefix...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Add Alias option for Hosts

Hi team, When monitoring a Host, the naming is based on the FQDN. Sometimes this name is not explanatory or easily identifiable by Instana users, especially when a customer has a big amount of hosts being monitored. It would be great to have the p...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Container Cost Allocation data available in Dashboard and Reporting

Customers would like to be able to build Cloudability dashboards and reports using the same data that is available in the Container Cost Allocation feature.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Currency doesn't show in charts

Issue is with metric: Even if you tag the currency, it won't show in the charts and if currency is Euros, it also won't show the Euro sign.
18 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Apptio tables Show Values not working when RLS Applied

Show values does not work in the RLS Step and users see different row count.
18 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Enable Image Attachment in Comments on Rightsizing ROI Screen

Customer wants the ability to attach images (e.g., screenshots) in the comment section of the Rightsizing ROI screen. Background: When sharing the status or context of a detected resource, it would be helpful to include screenshots for clarity. Th...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Enable Linking to Other Ticket IDs in Rightsizing ROI Screen Comments Description

Customer wants the ability to link to other ticket IDs within the comment section of the Rightsizing ROI screen. Background: When documenting the status of a detected resource, we often refer to similar cases that have already been addressed. In s...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Customer would like to request the ability to display the region of each resource in the Rightsizing ROI screen, even if it's shown in a detail section.

Customer would like the ability to display the region of each resource in the Rightsizing ROI screen, even if it's shown in a detail section. Background: When reviewing recommendations, customer sometimes needs to locate the corresponding resource...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

DWC to support proper high-availability

We have a load balancer in front of multiple DWC instances. The problem is that session affinity is required because of how the DWC stores user sessions. So, when one of the instances needs to be restarted, all logged in users to that instance are...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Would like logging in audit log for when an agent is changed from info to debug

Would like for when someone changes the agent log level from info to debug to be logged in the audit trail
18 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted