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Commitment Support OCI

Adding supported commitment types across OCI instances as well. It would help us get commitment recommendations from OCI as well. We have significant amount of spending on OCI as well
10 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 4 Future consideration

Please provide users with a summary of the release notes for the sensor version upgrade.

We would like a system that notifies users when updates occur for the sensors they are using, allowing them to understand the updates. It would be preferable if only the necessary information from the monitored data is notified to the users. Howev...
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Link to report from the recommendation details for AWS RDS

AWS RDS is missing a link to the report where it goes into detail which resources would benefit from the reservation. The other services from AWS have this feature.

Ability to extract and subscribe to Commitments based on Account name or ID

Data extracts do not contain account name. No way to subscribe to expirations based on account name. would be helpful to have this data available so its easier to manage.
10 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

vSphere sensor should be able to monitor multiple vCenter environments

Most customers have multiple vCenter environments. With the current design, customers must dedicate multiple VMs in order to monitor multiple vCenter environments. This is a waste of resources and means that the customer must dedicate multiple ser...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

To enable the monitoring of Job count based on Queue Library only where the Queue Name could be anything

To enable the monitoring of Job count based on Queue Library only where the Queue Name could be anything For example, Job Queue Library is "QGPL" and count is >= 200
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Effective scope identification for Azure Compute RIs in Commitment Portfolio

Currently, it's not possible to see in Reservation Portfolio what is the scope for a paricular Azure Compute reservation (Subscription or Resource Group). CLDY shows where a reservation has been purchased at the subscription/account level. It woul...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Support monitoring for onPrem OpenSearch clusters

It would help us a lot if Instana would support the monitoring of an OpenSearch cluster even if not the AWS service is used. Currently we're replacing some onPrem ElasticSearch Clusters with OpenSearch Clusters (also onPrem). ElasticSearch is supp...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure Files Reserved Capacity

A reservation covers storage capacity for Azure Files. Reservations for hot and cool tiers don't cover bandwidth or transaction rates. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and ask where the a...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Azure Application Insights monitoring

Support for collecting metrics, traces and logs from Azure Application InSight. This would enable insight into SaaS applications.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 2 Planned for future release