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Apptio AI Assistant to assist on Conversational Reporting

Apptio AI Assistant is an AI-powered IT finance expert that simplifies reporting, insights, and budgeting. Users can ask questions in plain language and get real-time, data-driven answers. With Generative AI and advanced analytics. Use Cases1. Con...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Creation date for Snapshots and EC2 instances

Creation date for Snapshots and EC2 instances: We have several accounts with very high Snapshot Costs, and it will help us target where we can save the most if we can tackle the oldest resources first.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Create a new Presets button in the Time range Presets options for 'Last month' (or 'Last 28 days', something like this)

Simce Instana can show metrics up to 1 month why isn't there this kinda button in the presets. This can help with showing the 'Monthly overview' of the metrics f.e. in the Custom Dashboard section. Place where I imagine this idea to be developed a...
8 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Planned for future release

API to programmatically set default dashboard and view for users based on roles

We currently have to go to the Users and Groups page to reset default dashboard and view for users manually. There should be an API to be set this programatically based on the user roles.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

To add custom time range in instana chart filter/query

We don't have an option to add custom time range in a chart query - like need to display a chart for last 1 day but without changing time filter of the overall dashboard
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 2 Future consideration

Multiple tabs for a custom dashboard

At present we don't have option to add multiple tabs in a single instana's custom dashboard, it will be hard to monitor by adding more number of charts within a same dashboard
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Custom Dashboard Traffic light widget

We're using the custom dashboards for a while now, and we are missing some customization features like a traffic light Widget.That's why we use Instana Custom Dashboards for simple dashboards and Grafana for dashboards, that need to be more meanin...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Infrastructure / User Interface 11

Can we have the feature to do utilization reporting for OCI at the compartment level? Right now, we have it only for AWS

Right now, for OCI resources, we are able to see compartment level cost using the newly created dimensions like compartment level name and compartment level ID. But several users in our Org., were looking for the capability of utilization reportin...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Not under consideration

GCP Cost not tally if not filter by Invoice Date/ID

GCP Cost numbers are not tally. Can't do monthly view as number will never be correct with GCP Native Billing
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 1 Is a defect

Add an Export button in UI to export metrics/analytics data to a CSV file

The requested feature is to have a button in the UI to allow exporting metrics or analytics from a dashboard into a CSV file or other types of consumable files. This is needed for any large organization to enable the creation of basic reports to d...
9 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration