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Shorter Grace Period for SmartAlerts

Currently, the shortest configurable Grace Period in SmartAlerts is 10 min (a lot longer compared with Custom Events, which have a minimum lapse of 5 sec). We'd like to have shorter Grace Period options when configuring SmartAlerts (5s and up woul...
about 20 hours ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Capability to sort Day of Week dimension in correct order

Today, when selecting day of week, you can choose ascending or descending but that only changes ordering based on alphabetical order. It would make sense to have an option to ensure day of week is always in the correct order.
about 23 hours ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Consolidate Resource Name across all CSPs into a single dimension

AWS uses the "name" tag, Azure needs a regex business mapping and GCP/SaaS platforms use Resource Name. Consolidating all vendors into the Resource Name field would make it easier to report on and use in business mappings.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

implementing intelligent recommendations and remediation for Instana alerts

Got a feedback from my one of the largest manufacturer clients in Hong Kong. They would like to have a a quick summary of our Intelligent Recommendations and Remediation in the alert email. They thought that the current email does not have have th...
6 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Reserved Coverage Rate metric needs to include Azure's MS Fabric

We have dashboard widgets to surface our Reserved Coverage Rate. We recently purchased large reservations for Microsoft Fabric and the Reserved Coverage Rate never increased. We subsequently learned that Fabric was not included in the Metric.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Create an event for the SUSPECT STATE database metric in MS SQL

We need to create an event when the database is in SUSPECT STATE equal to YES and notify this state. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.305?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server In the Instana's event page, we canno...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Add Databricks cluster names to Cloudability for Databricks GCP

Cloudability Databricks GCP connector is not bringing in Databricks cluster names. As result it is difficult to use Cloudability to understand which Databricks GCP cluster contributed to costs. Cloudability shows Databricks Azure cluster names. Da...

Support for custom scripts to generate alerts with scheduling in Instana.

The Instana capability would consist of providing an option to associate a custom script with a host or any other element, along with a scheduler that runs the script at a defined interval. Depending on the script output, an alert event could be g...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Submitted

Create business mapping dimensions dynamically

I'd like to be able to create business mappings dynamically. For example, using regular expressions to dynamically create new business mappings each time an expression is matched. I would be much easing rather than create a specific statement for ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2 Future consideration

Enable customers to upload Excel/CSV/JSON files directly in the UI to automatically create or update Business Mapping statements with built-in validation and one-click rollback

Today, users cannot upload Excel/CSV/JSON files directly in the UI to create or update Business Mapping statements.Because of this limitation CSMs/TAM/Admins must manually convert customer files into statements. Large Business Mapping updates (doz...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted