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To enable the monitoring of Job count based on Queue Library only where the Queue Name could be anything

To enable the monitoring of Job count based on Queue Library only where the Queue Name could be anything For example, Job Queue Library is "QGPL" and count is >= 200
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Support monitoring for onPrem OpenSearch clusters

It would help us a lot if Instana would support the monitoring of an OpenSearch cluster even if not the AWS service is used. Currently we're replacing some onPrem ElasticSearch Clusters with OpenSearch Clusters (also onPrem). ElasticSearch is supp...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Azure Application Insights monitoring

Support for collecting metrics, traces and logs from Azure Application InSight. This would enable insight into SaaS applications.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Support MSSQL Local Windows Authentication with FQDN-based Certificates

Description: Today the Instana MSSQL sensor in local mode with Windows Authentication validates the server certificate against the machine’s hostname. This fails in environments where SQL Server is configured to issue certificates that contain onl...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Ability to customize starting month for pans

When we generate forecast using plans feature, we should be able to customize starting month for plans. This will help tracking our commitments with CSPs. For example - If we have a commitment with CSP starting from Sep-2025 for 2 years. I dont ne...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Under review

Ability to generate forecast in plans for up to 6 years

We have some long range commitments with Cloud Service Providers for next 5 years. For us to track that under plans, we will need to forecast for next 6 years starting from this year. But since the current plan feature allows for only up to 3 year...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Under review

Monitoring Postilion with Instana

Using an Instana tool to monitor and do tracing on Postilion is useful for Capitec bank because it helps ensure that payment services—such as ATM, POS, and online transactions—run smoothly, quickly, and reliably. It gives real-time visibility into...
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

CFP - Support Azure Contract Commitments (including 5 year Plan Duration)

Customers would like the ability to track and reconcile their Azure Contract Commitments (e.g., Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA), Enterprise Agreement (EA), Azure Consumption Commitment, Azure Prepayment, etc.) directly within the Cloud Financia...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Under review

Add support for displaying Fiscal Years as per UK accounting convention

Cloud Financial Planning currently doesn't support the conventional way of displaying a UK Fiscal Year that spans 2 calendar year. For example, a Fiscal Year that runs for 12 months from April (Yr1) to March (Yr2) can only be displayed as either F...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Future consideration

Updated UI when importing Budgets with values that don't load.

Customers want to allow for future planned expenses in their budgets. Sometimes these future plans are not reflected in the current values available in the costing dimensions in Plans. Customer would like to be able to add "dummy" or future planne...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Planned for future release