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New Dimensions for Resource Type on reports

to have a new dimension for reports that shows resource type. Currently having to use Item Description and Resource ID as a deminsion and then filter with one of those by using the (contains) operator to get to the resource type is a messy way of ...
3 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

Make Utilisation data available for Azure customers

Currently utilisation data is not available in the reports blade for Azure resources. I believe this is because the utilisation data is not available in the billing export as it is for AWS. This is very confusing for customers who often see exactl...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Structuring of Dashboards and Reports.

Omnicom team would like to have an extended ability to organize reports and dashboards under the ‘Home’ section of Cloudability. The abilities include provisioning of Folder like data structure to organize reports and dashboards and the ability to...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Changing chart types and losing filters in dashboards

When we set up a dedicated chart with filters, when we change the type of chart all filters are reset.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric
11 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Need improved prereq checking for Standard Edition

There are a number of common problems that we've seen with customer installs where better prereq checking could have prevented an installation failure. We would like to see the prereq checker improved to check for additional prereqs. The following...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Under review

Ability to pull in credits from the Vendor

We've switched from CloudHealth to Cloudability because of some capabilities. However one thing we lost in the swap on platforms is the ability to show credits from the vendor. CloudHealth ingests this from AWS and Azure automatically, It would be...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Add sizing to Instana dashboard

Dear colleagues, please consider adding sizing capabilities to Instana dashboards. When instana is running it has all the information to estimate current resource use and calculate how much storage required for current load, when critical storage ...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Planned for future release

Allow for full data retention greater than 30 days

As per Instana documentation, any value greater than 7 is supported for data retention settings. However, we were notified that 30 days is the maximum supported value by IBM Support team. We usually tend to keep the APM metrics for longer duration...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review