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Apply a filter on "Estimate" widget

As a Finops I would like to be able to apply a filter to my widget, to exclude taxes for example. It would be relevant because a lot of companies doesn't have to pay taxes and doesn't want to track them.
8 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Create count function

Have a metric function in order to pull count. Currently we can only gather information from metrics such as cost, usage, and sustainability. From count function, we would want to identify the number of accounts.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Enhance the event table

Let's say i have 20+ IBMi systems all under the same zone.I have a filter within the Event page that only show me my IBMi Zone, and the table is really hard to read because:- "On" always shows the sensor name (which can be like Active jobs on..., ...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Ability to share dashboards easily with a large group (150+) instead of selecting each individually.

Ability to share dashboards easily with a large group (150+) instead of selecting each individually.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Planned for future release

Ability to share a report with a 'Microsoft Entra ID' group.

It will be usefull if we are able to share a report to a group of people based on 'Microsoft Entra ID' group. As a large company, we have systems that group people into groups and keep those groups up to date. Which is not the case at individuals ...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Instana to monitor the IBM MQ's current channel connections percentage.

Currently, Instana does not provide metrics for the current channel connections as a percentage of the maximum allowed connections pool within IBM MQ. This metric is vital for proactive capacity and health monitoring of IBM MQ channels, enabling t...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Increase max dimensions available on a Cloudability report

Today, our customers are limited to a maximum of 10 dimensions for Cloudability reports. Many of our customers are performing ad-hoc analysis that requires more context than 10 dimensions provides. We currently support 15 dimensions in Apptio BI r...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Monitor WebSphere Application Server Thread Usage Percentage with Alerting and Exclusion Support

To further enhance operational visibility, we request an enhancement to monitor thread usage in WAS as a percentage metric with alerting capabilities. Specifically, we propose the following features: Monitor the number of free threads in each WebS...
29 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

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...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Subscribe feature in comparison report

Hi Team, We need the feature to subscribe to reports where there is compare checked in the dashboards.Presently, it is greyed out.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2