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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

API Support for "Configure Endpoint Mapping"

We would like to request the addition of a public API to support automation of "Configure Endpoint Mapping" for services within Instana. Currently, this functionality is only available via the UI, making it difficult to configure multiple endpoint...
5 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

Custom Metrics Collection via Scripts ( Bash / Python etc.,)

From agent to execute scripts and feed the data to Instana for custom alerts and metrics.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Automation / Extend Capabilities 0 Future 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

Add Instance type and family dimensions to the IBMC data

We don't see this data for IBMC today, but it's essential for monitoring and managing the resources.We want to create a report for AI / GPU usage by flavor, but we can't because we don't have any data on the instance that can help with this.This i...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Resource Inventory 3 Future consideration

Enhancement of Instana with Historical Incident-Based GenAI-Powered Recommended Actions and Import Functionality

This request aims to enhance Instana by leveraging historical incident records(tickets) to enable Gen-AI-powered recommended actions.The goal is to import and analyze past incident response data to generate accurate and timely recommendations base...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Automation 0 Future consideration

APIs needed for adding Tags and Zones for Instana agents

It will allow to do bulk tags and zones for a group of agents. We can of course use git based and Ansible but APIs are these days the easiest one to go for and if you provide swagger gui for APIs it will be even easier to manage. Since you are giv...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Automation 1 Not under consideration