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Instana to monitor Windows services for all the Start types like Automatic and Manual

To further enhance Windows host monitoring, we request an enhancement to the IBM Instana Windows monitoring to support detailed Windows service monitoring with the following features: 1. Ability to monitor all Microsoft Windows services for their ...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 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

Sync configuration between two Instana Backend instances

There is no tool available to download/upload the Standard Edition backend configuration - neither stanctl command nor UI option. Lack of such capability brings significant additional burden for operation teams running Instana self-hosted deployme...
4 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

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

Instana built-in health metrics

Instana backend provide built-in dashboard panels showing basic health metrics e.g. agent connection status, data delivery etc., backend data ingress and data ingestion status e.g. infrastructure, eum, events, user and apm
12 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure App Services

The customer has requested to include Azure Web App as an option under drop-down for commitment Portfilio.
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 6 Future consideration

Commitment Recommendations list should include account names

When I look at reservation recommendation list, I see only instance types. I dont know on which accounts these instances work and whom I should follow up in regards to reservations. Please add Account ID or Account names in the recommendation list.

Ability to Report on the Azure Recommendations

The ability to generate a report that compares existing commitments against recommended commitments, enabling us to identify under-provisioning or over-provisioning across different workloads.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 2 Needs more information

Commitment Support for Azure VMware Solution

Commitment Support for Azure VMware Solution
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Commitment Support OCI

Adding supported commitment types across OCI instances as well. It would help us get commitment recommendations from OCI as well. We have significant amount of spending on OCI as well
10 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 4 Future consideration