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Enable the well-known Tilemap chart, Polystat chart, or Honeycomb Tilemap chart in the custom dashboards

It eliminates the need to integrate other tools with this plugin. Additionally, users always ask us for this chart.
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Commitment Recs are not compatible with tag based views

Currently when trying to view commitment recommendations for Azure and also using business mapping based views results in a message saying that tag based views are not supported for commitment recommendations. See attached screenshot. We would lik...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Future consideration

more nuanced anomaly detection report

similar functionality to aws cost explorer. edit time range, more details around cost spikes by services, ability to drill down.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Able to query the Instana Events in Grafana

Hi team, There has been a need to have Instana Events in Grafana, the same way as we do right now in the Custom Dashboards, basically, be able to query Critical/Warning and present them in a Grafana widget. Thank you.
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Application Perspective creation improvements

When creating/updating an AP following improvements are suggested: - A "notes" field writing in for which purpose this AP was created- A "tag" field in which tags can be entered manually which can be used in the AP overview to group by.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Metrics for Websites not stored for more than 7 days (historic data / representative sample)

Problem:------This is the case on the default Website Dashboard as well as for the Custom Instana Dashboards.When checking this in detail, we recognized no separate metrics and that the data is completely based on website (trace) data.Is this a bu...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Get list view of Application services by CPU/memory utilization using Custom Dashboard

We need to get top list of cpu or memory utilization by service /application name as it will help identify which particular application is consuming high cpu/memory . This will facilitate team to take quick action.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 4 Future consideration

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

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