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Auto Update for Cost Sharing Rules, when Namespaces are updated.

We would like to use the Cost Sharing Feature based on a Business Dimension to have an automated showback/chargeback process for shared costs in Accounts with Container setups. Therfore we use the feature to split gernal cost (which is not tied to...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

AD/LDAP Integration with Client's certificate for bind

LDAP integration (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.300?topic=configuration-configuring-ldap) accepts client's certificate for binding, additional to Bind DN and Password. It should be another configurable option.
4 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Ability to see available and utiltized GPU cores in container insights

Customers would like to see the available and utilized GPU cores in container insights. They can see Idle in costs but not in utilization.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Future consideration

Monitor the SAML attempts and notify on specific failures

Case: TS020088958 In reference to identity provider (IdP), in reference to single-sign-on SAML failures, such as sign-in-request failed, took too long, received an error message, each of these events should be in an audit log. Software Self Hav...
2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Request for Instana’s authentication function

The customer would like to request to enable the use of multiple (at least two) Azure AD tenants for SAML authentication IdP. Our customer is using two Azure AD tenants as the authentication provider. One is for headquarter, the other is for IT su...
4 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Ability to change order of cost sharing rules

customers can't change the cost sharing rules order when they need to change it from UI.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Future consideration

LDAP integration - automatic retrieve list of users and groups

It would be a useful feature that Instana, after the integration with LDAP, would automatically retrieve all users and groups from the LDAP according to the filter given in the LDAP configuration. This way administration of new users would be m...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 5 Functionality already exists

Enable month-specific fixed weightages in Cost Sharing (prevent retroactive changes)

Why it is useful Currently, Cost Sharing rules apply retroactively across all months. If a user changes a fixed weightage (e.g., from 10% to 20%), past months are automatically updated. This behavior creates inaccurate historical cost views and pr...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Planned for future release

Capturing S3 Folder Costs

Hi Team, We are trying to see costs at a folder level inside of S3 Buckets. Cloudability doesn't have the ability to divide the cost of each S3 bucket by each individual folder path. Additionally, AWS doesn’t allow you to put tags on the folders, ...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Future consideration

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