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Update to use amortised metric especially for Azure

With Azure spend if you are using Reservations or Savings plans the spend will only show up in the Cost amortised extracts otherwise under the cost actuals/total it shows zero spend. Therefore the anomaly tracking within Cloudability isn't correct...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Anomaly Detection - Cost Metric Configuration

Current State: Cloudability’s anomaly detection feature currently uses Cost (Total) as the only basis for identifying anomalies in cloud spend. Problem: Cost (Total) does not reflect the actual financial impact to the business because it excludes ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Future consideration

Need to fix Agent download process for air-gapped customers

This is related to support case TS018328082 The issue is with Standard Edition when working with air-gapped customers. The behavior was different with the Docker backend. But, with standard edition, here is what happens. The customers have access ...
10 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Make anomolies compatible with views

Currently anomolies can not be filtered using the view drop down. If a view is selected it does not show any anomolies.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Planned for future release

Show comparative daily figure

generally find it useful - but in February and March it is always going to show the wrong data as it is comparing days with different number of days. It would be more useful if the headline showed a comparative daily figure for the daily run rate ...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection / Other 0 Future consideration

Anomaly Detection with Intelligent Application Capability

Today, Anomaly Detection alerts you when spend spikes or drops but all remediation is manual. This delay often means real money wasted before action is taken. By embedding workflows, Anomaly Detection can suggest and trigger corrective actions imm...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Add sizing to Instana dashboard

Dear colleagues, please consider adding sizing capabilities to Instana dashboards. When instana is running it has all the information to estimate current resource use and calculate how much storage required for current load, when critical storage ...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Planned for future release

Allow for full data retention greater than 30 days

As per Instana documentation, any value greater than 7 is supported for data retention settings. However, we were notified that 30 days is the maximum supported value by IBM Support team. We usually tend to keep the APM metrics for longer duration...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Need improved prereq checking for Standard Edition

There are a number of common problems that we've seen with customer installs where better prereq checking could have prevented an installation failure. We would like to see the prereq checker improved to check for additional prereqs. The following...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Future consideration

Enable configuration to only send one email or pager duty alert incident per anomaly, the first time it crosses the alert threshold criteria

Problem: Currently when an email or pager duty subscription is set up for anomaly alerts, far more emails/incidents are generated than there are new alerts in the CLoudability UI. If email is set up then multiple emails will be received for a sing...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration