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Add sizing to Instana dashboard

Dear colleagues, please consider adding sizing capabilities to Instana dashboards. When instana is running it has all the information to estimate current resource use and calculate how much storage required for current load, when critical storage ...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Planned for future release

Selectively reprocess data for only specific Business Mappings and date ranges.

Currently, IBM Cloudability lacks the ability to selectively reprocess data for specific business mappings. When a business rule changes for one business dimension, users are forced to reprocess all mappings, even those that were previously accura...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Allow for full data retention greater than 30 days

As per Instana documentation, any value greater than 7 is supported for data retention settings. However, we were notified that 30 days is the maximum supported value by IBM Support team. We usually tend to keep the APM metrics for longer duration...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Need improved prereq checking for Standard Edition

There are a number of common problems that we've seen with customer installs where better prereq checking could have prevented an installation failure. We would like to see the prereq checker improved to check for additional prereqs. The following...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Future consideration

Support Oracle Kubernetes Engine as platform for Custom Self-Hosted Instana backend

Dear Colleagues, we have a demand from our customer who is interested in running Instana on Oracle Kubernetes Engine. The reason for that is attempt to reduce operational costs as OKE is a corporate standard. Please consider adding support for OKE...
7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Consistency between BM statement names and how they are displayed

I have created Business Mapping with capitalisation e.g. Account-Operations or BT, but when utilising BM in dashboards they all appear formatted by Cloudability to all lower case . This inconsistency is confusing for users and capitalisation is us...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Under review

Allow customers to reprocess business dimensions

Currently, if you make any changes to a business dimension and you want those changes reflected prior to the current month, you have to submit a support ticket. I regularly submit 1-3 tickets every month to reprocess our business dimensions. Pleas...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Future consideration

Surface Mongo organisation name in addition to ID

In MongoDB cost data integration, only the Organisation ID is surfaced as accounts in the vendor credentials but we have both the friendly name and id in the Mongo cost data. please can we surface the friendly name also so we do not need to create...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 4 Future consideration

GCP Cost not tally if not filter by Invoice Date/ID

GCP Cost numbers are not tally. Can't do monthly view as number will never be correct with GCP Native Billing
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 1 Is a defect

Option to provide description or details to the newly created dimensions

Hi Team, In the cloudabiloty reports the out of the box dimensions have the "?" next to each of them that provides the details of that particular dimension. Similar to which please help us by providing an option to enter the descriptin for the dim...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration