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Cldy Forecasting - provide previous period in export as well as forecasted period

For reference when forecasting knowing the previous month vs current forecasted month would be worthwhile when exports are created.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Use IBM clickhouse with AWS S3 Service

We would like use AWS S3 Service with Instana clickhouse for warm/cold data to improve cost effectiveness
6 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Use custom headers to map dependencies

At Capitec, we have a custom header which we are already including in our transactions: x-capitec-correlation-id. We have enabled our agents to capture this header and we are making us of it in the transactions analytics section where we set a fil...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Functionality already exists

EUM Reporting - make limit or disabling EUM traffic available as protection

operational requirment is 'protect monitoring against unwanted load' by EUM
7 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Future consideration

Provide a feature to Disable/Block the tracing of a few specific API calls from the EndUser monitoring

We have started using Instana EUM feature and found that it is tracing and tracking a lot of APIs calls to our feature flag service which we would like to disbale them from Instana. -Ashwin
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Functionality already exists

Budgets & Forecasts

Need to have a global overview and detailed per view: · Consumed (since the beginning of the fiscal year) · Budget (by fiscal year) · Forecasts (at the end of the fiscal year) Budgets are not shared in the interface but managed user by user except...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Planned for future release

Alerting

Each user has to create his own alerts. There is no possibility to create default alerts. Need to be able to create specific alerts for rightsizing / budget / forecast to a group / a predefined list linked to a view A single point of configuration...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Future consideration

Add Cross-Cloud Data Transfer Costs in Workload Planning

In Workload Planning, it would be highly beneficial for customers to have visibility into cross-cloud data transfer costs. For example, if a workload operates across both AWS and Azure, the associated data transfer costs between these clouds shoul...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Not under consideration

Budget Alerts - Continued Alerting

Ability to keep getting alerting, even after you hit threshold. Allow for continued notification, past the current 2 options of Expect to Exceed and Exceeded. AWS portal allows for notification for multi % over a set budget. So if I have $1K budge...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Future consideration

OTEL integration on Instana running Docker Container.

Want to enable the Open Telemetry (OTEL) acceptor (otlp-acceptor) so we can start testing OTEL as more standard way to send telemetry data to Instana. Instana backend is running on Docker Container
over 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Not under consideration