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Request to Enable Retrieval and Display of Metrics Equivalent to Navigator for i

For users who integrate IBM i with other systems, relying solely on Navigator for i for IBM i operations is inefficient.Meanwhile, the metrics that can be retrieved via Instana for IBM i are fewer than those available through Navigator for i, whic...
16 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Ability to assign and track investigation status of Cloudability cost anomalies in Cloudability UI

Problem:Right now in the Cloudability Cost Anomly you get a list of alerts for unusual/unexpected cost increases. The content of the alerts themselves is useful and provides the information needed to dig deeper. The challenge comes when trying to ...
23 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Anamoly detection and Insights dashboarding

Currently we don't have a dashboard to automatically share us the insghts to detect and visualize anamolies in the cloud costs , usage and performance data within Cloudability. FinOps , Users are looking to have this enhanced and will use statisca...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 2 Needs more information

Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Functionality already exists

Request to support locales other than English for DB on i.

Currently, the agent only supports the English locale for DB on i.However, many Japanese users have their locale set to Japan, and this situation is causing many IBM i users to miss out on the opportunity to use Instana. With support, Instana's bu...
16 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Include Unusual Spend chart in the anomaly email notification

Currently, unusual spend is reported via email alert - but there is no daily spend and a visual of a cost spike available, unless one goes to Cloudability anomalies and clicks on alert detail. It will be very useful to have that anomaly chart incl...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Under review

Be able to indicate a false positive for an anomaly

As a FinOps manager, I would like to be able to assess an anomaly in the anomaly detection feature.Currently on AWS, it is possible to evaluate an anomaly based on several criteria :True anomaly: the cost is unexpected and the error must be analyz...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

Customer would like to request the ability to leave comments in the Anomaly Detection screen, similar to the functionality available in the Rightsizing ROI screen.

In some cases, they need to record the analysis process or results, and assign follow-up actions to specific team members. Since not all users utilize tools like Jira or ServiceNow, having a way to manage such tasks directly within Cloudability wo...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Change the MSGW filtering by excluding the jobs in MSGW without a reply needed

Customers might have a few (or more) jobs in MSGW that don't actually need a reply. When configuring the MSGW monitoring in the INSTANA configuration.yaml, you can only define status/subsystem, so everything in MSGW would be considered, generating...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Display Account ID and Region Columns in Anomaly Detection List

Customer Feedback: Currently, the Anomaly Detection list only includes the account name. The customer requests that the Account ID be displayed in the list to make it easier to identify accounts when multiple payer accounts are registered. They fo...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review