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Cloudability Forecasting improvement

In Cloudability, the forecasting model skews forecasts post February because of the number of days in Feb. I suggest using a 30 day normalized approach for forecasting to improve the linear forecasting approach. Currently, as a FinOps practitioner...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Planned for future release

Financial Year under 'Pick a Time Period' in Cloudability Native Dashboards & Reporting

Cenitex have requested a 'Financial Year' time filter for reporting in Cloudability Native Dashboards & reports. Attached screenshot of where it'd be applied. This small addition would be a huge productivity increase for many finance teams who...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

enable future date selection in the time range filter

One of my clients is using the Cloudability dashboard and would like to select a custom time range that aligns with their fiscal year — specifically from February 2025 to February 2026. However, when attempting to select this range, the calendar d...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Compliance - Data retention policy for ITM

To comply with the data retention policy, we need to implement a mechanism within ITM that automatically removes older data and logs from both the tool and the underlying system.
about 1 month ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Self-Monitoring Instana with Instana - Document Instana custom metrics

(Self-Hosted) Instana instances can be fully monitored using Instana. If you know which metrics (custom metrics in Instana) to look out for when workload or resources change. Instana should provide up-to-date documentation of internal custom metri...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Future consideration

Possibility to cancel the export and download of reports

Hello, Enhance feature to cancel the preparation and download of a report to avoid the usage of resources and download large files to manage, when the filters were not properly selected. Thank you
10 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Enhance Cloudability to Ingest Azure Invoice Tax and Credit Data(beyond CUR CSV)

Currently Cloudability ingests Azure Cost and Usage Report (CUR ) data through CSV exports (eg: apptio_actual_cost_daily_exports) . These CUR files exclude the tax and credit fields which are only available in the Azure Invoice (PDF) As a result ,...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Azure and GCP utilization metrics needed in Reports in Dashboard in Cldy and ABI

Many customers have a need for utilisation metrics for Azure and GCP in Cldy - its been called out as a feature deficit for years. Its needed for customers so they can dive deep into longer term (like over a year) metrics util on instances to see ...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards / Resource Inventory 1 Not under consideration

Add functionality to allow automated configuration of IdP (LDAP, SAML, OIDC,...)

Self Hosted Customers want a way to configure and setup instana in a completely automated way with no/minimal manual intervention. Standard case is that you will also want to configure IdP in your tenant unit (e.g. LDAP, SAML, ...). This is not po...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Official Support for multiple tenant units for Self Hosted Custom Edition

Even the concept of Tenant Units is documented publicly on the installing self hosted custom edition documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=ice-installing#required-resources-custom-resource-definitions) - we...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration