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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Natvie Prometheus support

Instana supports Prometheus in a customised way to transfer and work with Prometheus metrics. Basically, Prometheus metrics can be collected and transferred to Instana. But core features like Metrics Labels do not work with the Instana backend in ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Under review

Request to Add a description Feild for View option

We observed that for the VIEWS we are unable to have a description field where we can update details of what is the purpose of the view – We set up a lot of views in our environment and this would be useful for us to remember the reason and/or del...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Views 1 Under review

Ability to select tags to consider in generating anomalies

Currently the anomaly detection works based on the account, service name, usage family and few tags which cloudability assumes which has highest coverage.Issue with this:Because it doesn't let users to select which tags to consider when generating...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Add support of SLES15 on zLinux for Apache(IHS) tracing, to suppport Auto Instrumentation of End User Monitoring

We want to use Auto Instrumentation of End User Monitoring, through Apache HTTPd tracing module. Now our IBM HTTP Server v9 is running on SLES 15 on zLinux. Please provide the support of SLES15 on zLinux. Now we only support SLES 12 on x86-64 arch...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Under review

Exclude Rightsizing Recommendations if current workload is on latest generation

Currently rightsizing recommendations are providing recs that contain older generation (but are "current generation") than the current instance. For example, current instance is running on r7g but rightsizing is recommending r6g.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Rightsizing for ECS workloads

Rightsizing support for ECS.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Under review

Include Cost (Amortized) in Anomaly Detection

Currently, as Anomaly is based on Cost (Actual). This has limitations incase of a customer using reservations. In such cases Cost (Actual) is able to work only on "On-Demand Cost" which is only pricing model being captured by Cost (Actual) - and w...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Ability to create e-mail alerts using filters instead of views

Have the ability to set e-mail alerts based off of filters instead of views (see screenshot) Example 1: I only want to receive e-mail alerts for accounts 1 and 2. Instead of selecting a view, I would be able to set a filter to where the e-mail ale...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Under review

Exclude idle time in IOPS and Throughput metrics

Consider excluding idle time when calculating IOPS and Throughput metrics used for recommendations or add it as an optional way to interpret and view recommendations. The current formula used is the sum of read and write operations dived by time p...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Treat Call and Trace metrics like any other time-series metrics

Regarding Application & Trace Data Retention policy, we claim that “Accurate metrics of applications, services, and endpoints are kept for 31 days.” After looking into this in detail, I have made the following observations: Call metrics with 1...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review