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Including Services Without Direct Costs IN cost sharing ruleS

Hi, Currently, it’s not possible to use cost statements for services that don’t have direct costs in the cost sharing feature. We have several services—such as those composed of Frontend, Backend, API Management, and SQL Database—that don’t genera...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Under review

Add owner of the Application Perspective in the Configuration tab

Please add the username/name of the person who created the Application Perspective in the Configuration tab, that way we know who created it. Thank you.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Plan tab does not factor in cost sharing rules

It'll be helpful to use the cost views defined with the sharing rules in the Plan tab (Forecast, budget,...). Many companies don't split the budget split for IT department, but rathet by main lines of business. Also, a single resource may be used ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Planned for future release

Treat Call and Trace metrics like any other time-series metrics

Regarding Application & Trace Data Retention policy, we claim that “Accurate metrics of applications, services, and endpoints are kept for 31 days.” After looking into this in detail, I have made the following observations: Call metrics with 1...
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Can we have capability to map other relevant (non-compute) charges like network back to the OCI cluster ?

Hi Team, Can we have capability to map other relevant (non-compute) charges like network back to the OCI cluster ? In other words, right now, we are able to view the non-compute of clusters of other CSPs - AWS and GCP but not for OCI. For OCI, ONL...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Submitted

Need periodic reports in different formats

Dear Colleagues, we have a constant demand from our customers regarding reporting capabilities. Please consider creating additional sharing option for custom dashboards. Something like periodic report, that generates a PDF (CSV, XLS, Plain text) f...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Place holder for "offline" Event types

We have created alert based on "Offline" event, if a service goes down. But we need to insert a "place holder" so that it shows us what is the service which went offline in subject line or heading. This will help us identifying quickly what servic...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

Embedded AI/ML System for Automated Business Mapping Suggestions in Apptio Cloudability

The proposed feature introduces an embedded Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) engine within Apptio Cloudability that continuously learns from customer-specific resource tags and usage patterns. Based on this learning, the system...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to observe all events applied to Infrastructure map

Dear Colleagues, our customer is using Infrastructure map for wall screen monitor. And they ask for ability to map all events on the zones/pilars of Infrastructure map. At the moment it looks like if something happens with pod, or application cust...
5 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Future consideration

Create Business Perspective per Process Application

When creating a new Perspective in the Business Monitoring capability of Instana I would like to be able to filter on Process Applications to be able to create a Perspective per Process Application. All business processes for that Process Applicat...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration