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Tracking Snowflake prepaid credits

In the case of Snowflake and Azure Databricks, we prepay for a set number of capacity units. In the case of Databricks, it is DBUs. Each job that runs, etc, has a DBU spend attached to it. This is the same for Snowflake. It comes through as $0 dol...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Need the MQ User Exit trace files to do some level of cleanup of /tmp/ibmmqtrace directory

At customer environments and in my own environment, I have seen the /tmp or / filesystem fill up because the MQ User Exit does not clean up the older trace files. There needs to be a mechanism to clean up the older files. We have to protect the cu...
7 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Planned for future release

Want to be able to configured an availabilityZone for all queue managers on a server

Customers are looking for an easy way to setup Availability Zones for their IBM MQ Queue Managers. The environment is setup with RDQM. Therefore, they want to see the Queue Managers independently from the Host Agent. And, they want to put all of t...
7 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

To have the possibility to download a business metric into an excel file

Some departments are not familiar with reading a .json file and having an export into excel would be much easier for them
7 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Future consideration

Cost (Amortized) metric/cost basis option to be added in Business Mappings details page

Customer uses Cost(Amortized) basis in most of the reports to gain cost visibility for cloud commitment and their allocation to the time and place they are consumed. On organize > Business mapping, when we click on a business mapping to view th...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 5 Not under consideration

Need to monitor existence of Dead Letter Queue by Instana Agent

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors existence of Dead Letter Queue in MQ with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM s...
over 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 2 Functionality already exists

'Current Transfers' does not match time span

For MFT, if you change the time span on the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' dashboard the 'Transfer Statistics' chart is updated with the new time span. For the 'Current Transfers' table this does not happen, and it will only show the tran...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Allow to Adjust Tag Explorer - Untaggable Spend

The Untaggable spend KPIs do not allow the ability to exclude products that passthrough a resource ID but are not taggable. Therefore, the KPI values displayed as is do not provide an accurate depiction of the dollars or percentage of Untaggable S...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Future consideration

Big Query, have the number of request as a metric available in Cloudability

Big Query, have the number of request as a metric available in Cloudability
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Needs more information

Pull all columns from vendor billing and allow custom dimensions based on field

Currently, the Transaction Type and Seller Name columns are not being ingested by Cloudability from the BQ table, as these columns were newly introduced by GCP. Having these columns will simplify reporting significantly, as all marketplace items c...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Under review