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Enable vCPU Usage Metrics for Azure in Cloudability

Currently, Cloudability supports vCPU tracking for AWS and GCP, but Azure data lacks this metric. Since vCPU is crucial for Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans, and overall FinOps decision-making. Without this feature, Azure customers lack vis...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Go to next/previous windows timerange

Hello, currently in Instana, we can select a predefined timerange (last 30min, last 1h, yesterday, etc.) or we can customize the timerange with year, month, day, hour, minutes. Once we have this selected, there is no option to automaticaly go to n...
2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Make backend automations visible

We have run into a few instances where there are automations behind the scenes that affect entities in ways that are not desirable to the client.Often times these are feature toggles and we have been able to turn them off, but they are hard to tra...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 1 Submitted

Kubernetes Cluster data support for Cloud sustainability Dashboards in Cloudability

Multiple customers are using the Cloudability Sustainability Dashboard which is imperative to understand carbon emissions and other metrics. One of customers are willing to understand the sustainability data from a Kubernetes cluster data perspect...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Report exports should show business mapping names as column headers rather than reference IDs

When a business mapping field is used as a dimension in a report, the mapping name shown in the UI does not get passed through the exported report. Instead the column name would be something like 'category1'. This is really annoying and potentiall...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Access Admin integrated with Usage data reporting

Integrate Access Admin data with Usage to provide reporting that includes role granted/changed, last time logged in, environment accessed, persona, and customization for persona or organization data. Use case 1: Our security protocol requires user...
3 months ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Cloudability Access Logs / Report views by user

Much like how Apptio Costing has a usage project within an environment, The customer would like something similar for Cloudability / BI. Customer would like the ability to see which users are viewing which reports and at what rate (ex: John Doe vi...
3 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Enhanced change log and version control system

Summary: Introduce a change log and version control system to track modifications made to business mappings, tags/labels, account group mappings, and views within the platform, allowing users to view, compare, and revert changes as needed. Use cas...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Submitted

COPA OA: Thread details and termination for WebSphere threads (webcontainer, EJB calls) is required to troubleshoot long running workloads.

Thread details and termination for WebSphere threads (webcontainer, EJB calls) is required to troubleshoot long running workloads.Need the capability to generate thread dumps to view the current thread activity. This is useful for long running wor...
4 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Submitted

Reporting on App Service Environments in Azure.

CBA have a use case where many of their workloads are moving to ASE. We dont get much granularity from ASE in the cost reporting - however via the SPN we deploy we could possibly use that to gain better insights for ASE.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted