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See Time Dimensions vertically along with other dimensions and values in a table

I create reports in TBM and would like to be able to build out reports with a Months column, a YearToDate metric column, and any additional dimensions and metrics. To display the monthly values vertically, we would need the capability of trending ...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Delivered

Report Deletion - Redirect

When in a Report and choosing the Delete option, after one Confirms, Cloudability opens up to page to Create Report, which makes no sense. It should take you back to Reports page (list of all remaining Reports).
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Delivered

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Infrastructure / Logging / Other Tracers 4 Delivered

Cost Totals at the bottom of Table Widgets

End users would like the option to toggle on cost totals to the bottle of table widgets. It would be very helpful in telling the full story of the data without having to add an additional adget to get the totals.
10 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 1 Delivered

Include custom payload for Log monitoring

We are able to configure smart alerts for logs but Instana does not support adding custom payload to log smart alerts. Lack of custom payload for log alerts is depriving us from knowing from which application the log is being triggered (We have 17...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert / Logging 1 Delivered

Instana should allow to raise Events -> Alerts based upon log messages

Instana currently relies on metrics to create Events which can raise Alerts. Applications often have some known error codes or messages which refer to specific issues that may not be immediately evident by some of the metrics collected by the solu...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Logging 1 Delivered

GCP Utilization Data Reporting

helpful to create dashboards recommended by Deloitte in Unifai WP2 These dashboard can help to find optimization opprotunities
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards / Resource Inventory 2 Delivered

Logs of span rate limiting should be write in INFO level in agent.log to detect it worked.

Instana manual explains as following; > If you see logs like Suppressed spans due to high number of short or Discarded span due to queue overflow in the agent log, it means that the Java tracer experienced heavy load on span processing. The des...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Logging / Tracing 2 Delivered

matrix visual capability

I often use matrix tables as visuals in my power bi reports. With Apptio Cloudability now utilizing the Apptio BI engine, this would be a powerful way to enhance its table capability. The Table visual itself is necessary for many situations, and h...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Delivered

Number widget comparison indicators need better visibility

Dashboard Enhancement request.... Please change the white-on-light grey text within number widgets with a comparison to be more readable (darker background, larger % number, outline of text....). Screenshots of these widgets do not emphasize the d...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Delivered