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Ability to report and filter on Commitment type (All Upfront, Partial Upfront, No Upfront)+

We would be able to compare in reports total cost and how the different commitment types impact the savings. Plus be able to filter out all upfront costs from Amortized costs.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

More of a Bug than an idea. Currently unutilized part of a Savings plan shows Reservations class as "Standard" which is a class suitable for RIs.

For a customer Reservation Class is showing as "Standard" despite the Lease Type being Savings Plan. This happens specifically for Transaction Type "Recurring Charge". Implecation being that the unused part of a Savings Plan is being tagged under ...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 1 Not under consideration

Make Userid visible in "Top Processes" at the Host Dashboard or make it selectable/visible in Custom Dashbords for processes

Customer wants to see the running Userid of DB2 Instances. Actually it is hard to find out under which user the db2sysc Instances are running. You have to select all Processes and open the Process Dashboard. Customer need this information to easie...
over 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Future consideration

In the application traces(Analytics->calls in the UI) the query execution time from a DB2 is not getting represented correctly, for example when a query is waiting for a lock this time is not getting reported under query time instead it is getting reported under JVM time.

it was observed that the entire time(execution+lock) was distributed between the query execution and result fetch, so we need an implementation where we can see the query time and a child span for resultset showing the time taken in locking if any...
9 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Future consideration

Ability to Star Reports I Don't Own

I would like to be able to star an out of the box report without having to make a copy of it. This would be helpful in managing the list of reports and allow me to go to the Starred reports for the ones that I'm interested in.
9 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Ability to search/filter in a table widget on Dashboard

Currently if you have a long list of items in a table widget, there is no way to search or filter so you have to scroll through the entire list to find what you are looking for. Could we have the same ability to filter a table, as we do in Apptio ...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Adding Account Owners to Rightsizing Dashboard

While we can customize our reports in BI with various dimensions, we are specifically referring to the rightsizing recommendations that help us navigate suggested scenarios. See the attached screenshot. I remember this was discussed before the CLD...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Add Instana built-in metric for table spaces status (normal or abnormal)

I would like Instana has a built-in metric for table spaces status, the return value represents normal or abnormal. After this built-in metric available, then I can trigger an alert based on this built-in metric. Here is db2 reference about table ...
about 3 years ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Request for Shortened Report Links in Cloudability

The customer has highlighted a challenge with the current structure of Cloudability report links. Unlike Apptio BI, where links are shortened, Cloudability links embed the entire report logic, making them excessively long.
10 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Filtering Snowflake smart alerts by database username or account

We are trying to create smart alerts to get alerts when queries are taking longer than a specific threshold. While creating the alert we are trying to filter by only specific snowflake usernames/account.
10 months ago in Instana / DB2 2 Functionality already exists