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Natvie Prometheus support

Instana supports Prometheus in a customised way to transfer and work with Prometheus metrics. Basically, Prometheus metrics can be collected and transferred to Instana. But core features like Metrics Labels do not work with the Instana backend in ...
8 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 3 Not under consideration

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...
9 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

Prevent user to alter configured Budget cap.

We enter budget forecasts every year for each AWS account and Azure subscription in Cloudability. We would like to prevent users from altering configured budget thresholds. If any changes are required, then the Cloudability admin can update the bu...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Not under consideration

Add a duration metrics for activities inside business processes

When looking at activities of a bussines process I see a column with a "Duration" metrics. This metrics is not available to be selected like the "Latency" metrics in any charts. I would like to be able to select the "Duration" as a metrics under B...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

HAProxy backend to show more than 300 backend servers

Currently Instana shows 299 backend servicer and 1 Frondend servers. Our environment has more than ~1000 Servers. This feature is to increase and show more than 300 backend and Frontend servers.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

Adding Connection metrics in IBM MQ Channel while creating Instana Events

Connection metric should be included while defining event for IBM MQ Channel. Giving the user privilege to define event to monitor connections made to a channel.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Call tag values always treated as String

Our implementation of tracking flows into Db2 for z/OS via JDBC , the Db2 for z/OS and Z Common Data Provider are required. Once installed and configured, we provide metrics (such as cpu_time, smf_id, io_wait, subsystem_id, elapsed_time, lock_wait...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Cross teams/areas / DB2 / IBM Z / Metric Store / Other Tracers / Tracing 1 Not under consideration