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Estimate required Compute Savings Plans Commitment to reach target coverage

It would be very valuable to have a feature in Cloudability that allows us to input a desired AWS Compute Savings Plans coverage percentage, and receive an estimate of the required hourly commitment to achieve that coverage.Use case : We must manu...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1

Have ability to enter a hypothetical Savings Plan purchase amount and terms and return estimated savings and coverage metrics

Problem:Right now the Optimize → Commitment Recs → AWS → Compute Savings Plan recommendation tooling only provides recommendations to achieve maximum savings coverage for current workloads. However, some organizations have a lower risk tolerance a...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1

Instana agents count metric not available in Smart Alerts

From customer: While attempting to create an alert to monitor the metric "Count (Number of reporting Instana Agents)", we noticed that this metric is not available under: Infrastructure → Create Smart Alert → Metric → Select metric, Interestingly,...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Include Process Details in Email/Msteams Alert

1. Currently, in Instana, the alerts we receive via email or Teams do not include information about which process is consuming high CPU. However, when we check the event details within the Instana UI, the specific process name is available. 2. It ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Commitment Support for AWS Dynamo DB Reserved Instances

Standard commitment support for this commitment type.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Automatic event creation for process alerts

We are looking for a solution to employ a predefined list of Processes on the agent config and would need an event for "process down" created if the Instana server detects that process metrics came in from a host at any point and maintain that sta...
26 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Enable Events, Alerts, and Dashboards for OracleDB Custom Polling Metrics

Currently, Instana does not support creating Events, Alerts, or Custom Dashboards based on the OracleDB custom polling metrics documented here: Monitoring OracleDB. Several of our clients who use OracleDB have requested the ability to leverage the...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 1 Under review

To show Savings under Azure Savings Compute plan in commitment portfolio

Customer would like to see the Savings they are making on their account under Commitment Portfolio. As of now, they do see details related to Utilization, Hourly commit and Remaining cost, however having the option to see the savings happening wou...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 5 Planned for future release

Remove Limitation for `OR` logical operator When defining multiple metrics by pattern, only one rule is allowed to use a different matching operator from 'is'.

I believe, this functionality was by design when there is only one logical operator i.e., 'AND'. However, there was an introduction of `OR` logical operator recently between the rules/condition thresholds for metrics. It makes sense to restrict fo...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Feature to convert "Global smart alert" to "Application smart alert" when we do it from application perspective !!

For instance, if we have a global smart alert for 404 errors with a static threshold of 5%, and there are 50+ applications that require different thresholds, the ability to convert the global smart alert to an application smart alert from within t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

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