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Expiring RI for RDS, add column for Engine type

For expiring RDS RIs, it would be very useful to have the engine added to the table that is sent via email subscription.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Future consideration

Monitor the SAML attempts and notify on specific failures

Case: TS020088958 In reference to identity provider (IdP), in reference to single-sign-on SAML failures, such as sign-in-request failed, took too long, received an error message, each of these events should be in an audit log. Software Self Hav...
2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Increase the granularity of DynamoDB metrics to support hourly basis analysis

The idea is to have the metrics for a few products persistent on an hourly basis so the users can do a deeper analysis of their usage. Today, the customer is using a tool from AWS Marketplace called CUDOS to do that. https://aws.amazon.com/pt/blog...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards / Resource Inventory 1 Functionality already exists

To include more services under Azure.

Omnicom Team would like to include more services under Resource Inventory -> Azure. Currently, only Compute, Managed Disk and Database services are available under services dropdown in Resource Inventory section for Azure.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 3 Not under consideration

Enable vCPU Usage Metrics for Azure in Cloudability

Currently, Cloudability supports vCPU tracking for AWS and GCP, but Azure data lacks this metric. Since vCPU is crucial for Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans, and overall FinOps decision-making. Without this feature, Azure customers lack vis...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

LDAP integration - automatic retrieve list of users and groups

It would be a useful feature that Instana, after the integration with LDAP, would automatically retrieve all users and groups from the LDAP according to the filter given in the LDAP configuration. This way administration of new users would be m...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 5 Functionality already exists

Add Snapshot Launch date

We would be able to see the date when a snapshot has been created and would be able to monitor the existence and cost of a snapshot by filtering on the launch date column. This would enable us to address historic snapshots that are no longer requi...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Not under consideration

Ability to see Container K8s labels along with other tags and labels in Resource Inventory

When looking at the utilization of resources it is useful to know what applications are running against that infrastructure. Including the K8s labels in the data would be helpful in assessing the use of the resources.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Not under consideration

User re-invitation feature is required in Instana SaaS

Currently, there's no re-invitation of User in Instana SaaS. The only way to re-invite specific user is to delete and create again. It's very very inconvenient for our Instana users when re-invitation is needed.
4 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Create Orphaned resources menu to be able to track deleted resources savings

Savings generated from deleted resources or orphaned resource cleanup is one of categories that Business is asking Cloud teams to track.
11 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Not under consideration