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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

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

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

Enhancing Sustainability Report/Dashboard

To further support on sustainability goals, we have been continuously implementing the changes in our cloud environments, such as Stop non-prod EC2 instances during weekend & rightsizing, etc. With all those approaches, not just impacting on t...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Ability to have a reporting dimension for Azure - TERM - to create reports for reservations based on their term (1y -3y)

Currenty it it only possible to have the reservations term visibility using the commitment portfolio. The ask is to add a new dimension TERM, which will help users to categorize reseravtions based on their term (1 year or 3 year). We have tried cr...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Support Oracle Kubernetes Engine as platform for Custom Self-Hosted Instana backend

Dear Colleagues, we have a demand from our customer who is interested in running Instana on Oracle Kubernetes Engine. The reason for that is attempt to reduce operational costs as OKE is a corporate standard. Please consider adding support for OKE...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Needs more information

Dates as columns so we can see month-over-month changes ( Side by Side view )

Cannot do today but checking on status here. Bala: Can we validate if the pivot table capability in Apptio BI can support this ? I am not sure if CLDY datasource currently is supported. But something to validate
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

Global fiscal year, so date range for quarter follows the fiscal year setting. Then forecasting can also show for fiscal year, not calendar year / month.

Support for CFP data in BI.But required in either TC or CLDY.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Utilisation Data for GCP

Currently we can only extract the utilisation data of AWS services through reports. we want the same functionality for GCP Compute and other GCP services. Given the data is already available and used for rightsizing recommendations it should have ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Functionality already exists

Request for new features in the Cloudability budget notification section

This is a request for new features in the Cloudability budget notification section: 1. Indefinite Budget Duration: Currently, the maximum budget duration is 18 months. We request an option to set budgets for an indefinite period, similar to AWS Bu...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration