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Ability to see available and utiltized GPU cores in container insights

Customers would like to see the available and utilized GPU cores in container insights. They can see Idle in costs but not in utilization.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Future consideration

Container recommendations should include recommendations where limits = request for all resources and one where they are not identical.

Customers would like to see recommendations where they can guarantee that the workload will have the resources as well as ones where the ability is variable (limit does not equal requested). Different workloads have different needs. It would be he...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Track status of provisioned Clusters

Knowing which clusters have been provisioned and their status (active, inactive, no data received) would help in determining how many clusters are not currently capturing data. Currently, only clusters that have sent information are available. Cus...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

SAIOM - make it possible to authenticate on port 443 to eliminate non-secure connections

This will eliminate vulnerabilities related to non-secure connections on port 21 to the OSA-ICCs on System Z. If this cannot be remediated, we are forced to discontinue use of the product.
4 months ago in Tivoli System Automation 3 Submitted

Ability to create alerts on aggregated prometheus metrics values over multiple K8s pods

In the prom metrics business metrics are captured for which the sum/aggregation needs to be a potential value to be alerted on.
almost 5 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1

Failed missing node should be displayed in the InfrastructureMap to attract attention

This is the request from the banking client after they executed the failure-recovery test of DB node. This request is not for how we can notified on the failure, but for improving the display of the Infrastructure map. -- During the test, they dis...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

API Support for Cloudability Containers – Metrics Agent Observability

We greatly value the recently released metrics agent observability tool and believe that enabling API support would unlock even greater potential.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Under review

Generic Entity Types creation by native OpenTelemetry (OTEL) infrastructure data instead of Otel-Collector Entity

Instana currently supports a variety of entity types—including infrastructure entities (hosts, containers, Java processes) and trace-specific entities (services, endpoints, applications). While the Instana sensors offer powerful application monito...
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4

Export of containers from Insights 2.0 - column name obfuscation. Needs to reflect the actual column names from the Insights page.

Very difficult to read column name in export as it presents, can't figure out what cost belongs to what
2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Needs more information