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Commitment Management 2.0 for Azure Commitment Portfolio

The commitment portfolio functionality in AWS and GCP is great. I would like to see this supported in Azure.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Planned for future release

Allow run cycles to schedule by weekday offsets

Currently monthly run cycles can be scheduled for "last day", "2nd to last day", etc. as well as "first day", "second day" and so forth. We have a requirement to run on the last 3 weekdays and the first 4 weekdays of a month. We're currently manag...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Add heat map widget charts

Heat maps can show a larger amount of data at one point for status and give an idea how big each area of concern is. They support understanding data density, trends and patterns in large data sets. Customers use this diagram type in other applicat...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

Planning - combine actuals and planned values in Forecast

Currently, in the forecast plan, actuals are displayed as separate non-editable lines (for both past and future months), while planned values are maintained in separate editable lines (with actual months greyed out). Planners have shared that this...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Add Usage Family/Usage type to Resource Inventory

We request adding a field of Usage Family or Usage type to each line in the resource inventory in order to be able to separate any storage cost for example from actual instance usage. This can help especially when constructing reports via API call...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Planned for future release

Support for ElasticSearch v8.18 and higher

Currently, Instana Sensor supports until v8.17.1 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.299?topic=technologies-monitoring-elasticsearch#configuration. ElasticSearch has already moved to v9.x and Instana support for ElasticSearch has...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Updated UI when importing Budgets with values that don't load.

Customers want to allow for future planned expenses in their budgets. Sometimes these future plans are not reflected in the current values available in the costing dimensions in Plans. Customer would like to be able to add "dummy" or future planne...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Add GCP "Usage Amount in pricing unit"

When lookiing at the cost and usage data to validate pricing and any applicable discounts, it is useful to have the quanity used in the pricing calcution. If pricing is done in bytes, it should not be converted to GBs for example. When Cldy separa...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2 Planned for future release

Instana to monitor the JDBC connection percentage for the IBM WebSphere Application Server

Currently, Instana does not support monitoring the JDBC connection pool usage as a percentage of the total pool size for WebSphere Application Server. This feature is essential to detect and alert when JDBC connection utilization exceeds a defined...
2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Node Status

We have recently onboarding our Openshift Cluster to Instana for infra monitoring. Today we faced an issue where a node was not in Ready state and hence it generated a lot of incidents related to the Pods in that node. We managed to find the event...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Planned for future release