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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

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

Launch Date for EBS Snapshots

This will help the customers to sort and action of the EBS Snapshots which are present for a long time.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Not under consideration

Hourly breakdown of usage data for AWS and Azure

Useful to get usage trends of our instances in order to track shutdown in nbh, trends on hourly usage, etc.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Functionality already exists

Include actual field names for metadata in the Resource Inventory Extract

Currently, the Resource Inventory csv extract shows only generic ("Tag 42") field headings. The actual field headings ("Cost Center") are available in the UI, and these same headings should appear in the csv extract, otherwise the exported data is...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Filtering by Log Parameters in Analytics Tab

In the Analytics tab we would like for there to be a filtering option for log parameters. There is not currently an option to filter based off of log params only the messages and level. I have attached screenshots below
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 2 Not under consideration

Alerting based on content of logs

Some erroneous calls might be considered OK based on the logs of that call, so with the new feature we should be able to alert only when specific logs appear and also exclude some logs from generating an alert. This way the client could reduce the...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 4 Not under consideration

Parse json formatted logs to generate fields and extract log level

We're writing lot's of logs in json format as this is very helpful with other log management solutions (Graylog2, Datadog) to parse these logs into fields and have very searchable data. This would be necessary for us to further use Instana Log ana...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration