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More of a Bug than an idea. Currently unutilized part of a Savings plan shows Reservations class as "Standard" which is a class suitable for RIs.

For a customer Reservation Class is showing as "Standard" despite the Lease Type being Savings Plan. This happens specifically for Transaction Type "Recurring Charge". Implecation being that the unused part of a Savings Plan is being tagged under ...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 1 Not under consideration

Collect kubernetes metrics health SLIs

Since Kubernetes 1.26, you can configure Service Level Indicator (SLI) metrics for the Kubernetes components binaries. Once you enable them, Kubernetes will expose the SLI metrics in the /metrics/slis endpoint https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Avoid abnormal termination false positives during Helm deployment

Use-case: During HELM deployment the old pods are expected to be stopped with a SIGKILL. So the event Instana is raising is technically correct, but absolutely expected. This FR is about adding more logica to such K8s events and Instana events avo...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

GCP - Dimension for Project Number

Cloudability currently picks up Project Name and Project ID, but not Project Number.
10 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2 Not under consideration

Built-in Event: Kubernetes Node condition status event correlation between kubernetes node scaling events

Once our cluster scales down, usually, our node/nodes will be terminated status(or unknown). But it doesn’t mean our nodes are not healthy. It just scales down. We are getting many mentioned event notifications, and our engineers are missing the a...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Able to disable monitoring in Instana based on namespaces (K8s)

customer would like to disable monitoring/instrumentation based on namespaces.
about 4 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Request for specification improvement of K8Sensor when using Instana in OpenShift environment.

Request for specification improvement of K8Sensor when using Instana in OpenShift environment. In an OpenShift environment, K8Sensor runs as three PODs by default. The first deployed pod is designated as the leader pod and is responsible for s...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Use "Alias" naming convention to replace "Account Name" for AWS data

For AWS data, use Alias feature to display account name. Customer would like to leverage this Apptio. Is there a way for Apptio to leverage the “alias” name instead of the actual Account name. The AWS portals display the “alias” name itself.
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Not under consideration

Pod readiness alert should heed delay settings

We've got some issues with the pod readiness event. Some of our pods need some time to start. To make up for this we've set the initialDelaySeconds value on our probes. However the pod unready probe does alert after a pod has been unready for a mi...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 5 Not under consideration

Instana to support GPU monitoring on Openshift Container Platform

Hi, My customer ISBANK needs Instana to support GPU machines on openshift.Instana supports GPU monitoring for just standalone docker servers with GPUs. According to the result of a related case, we learned that there is no support for GPU monitori...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 3 Not under consideration