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Add owner of the Application Perspective in the Configuration tab

Please add the username/name of the person who created the Application Perspective in the Configuration tab, that way we know who created it. Thank you.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Adding Single-AZ or Multi-AZ field to the RDS Resource Inventory

Adding the availability zone details in a column of Resource Inventory would give the customer a detailed view on the RDS.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 3

Add CPU count and memory metrics to go along with instance types.

Withe the instance type information, adding a CPU count and total memory should be a easy metric addition that maps to the instance types. CPU count would be very helpful for licensing requirements.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1

Treat Call and Trace metrics like any other time-series metrics

Regarding Application & Trace Data Retention policy, we claim that “Accurate metrics of applications, services, and endpoints are kept for 31 days.” After looking into this in detail, I have made the following observations: Call metrics with 1...
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Include Account name

All users you cannot see account name unless you download the report
9 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Functionality already exists

Provide a Concurrent Count of VMs

This will help determine an accurate count of non-ephemeral workloads, which will help with software licensing requirements etc.
9 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Future consideration

Resource Inventory feature missing for both OCI and GCP

Resource Inventory feature missing for both OCI and GCP. After AWS, we have significant cloud spend over OCI and GCP
9 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 6 Not under consideration

Need periodic reports in different formats

Dear Colleagues, we have a constant demand from our customers regarding reporting capabilities. Please consider creating additional sharing option for custom dashboards. Something like periodic report, that generates a PDF (CSV, XLS, Plain text) f...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Place holder for "offline" Event types

We have created alert based on "Offline" event, if a service goes down. But we need to insert a "place holder" so that it shows us what is the service which went offline in subject line or heading. This will help us identifying quickly what servic...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

Need to be able to observe all events applied to Infrastructure map

Dear Colleagues, our customer is using Infrastructure map for wall screen monitor. And they ask for ability to map all events on the zones/pilars of Infrastructure map. At the moment it looks like if something happens with pod, or application cust...
5 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Future consideration