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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

Instana OpenTelemetry Correlation for Pure OTel Scenarios

We have a pure OpenTelemetry setup where the OtelCollector directly exports data to the Instana SaaS backend, without any Instana Agent in between. Currently, entity correlation across layers like ApplicationPerspective > Service > Endpoint ...
7 months ago in Instana / Integrations 3

Third party integration with Icinga

Hi Instana team, I have a couple customers, principally FOD Financien Belgium, that use another German monitoring product called Icinga as their network/infrastructure monitoring tool, it would be highly useful to have the same integration capabil...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under 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

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

Grafana Data Source Alert Management

Using the Grafana data source for Instana does not allow creating alerts. It would be really useful to be able to manage alerts from Grafana where we already have dashboards with built-in metrics and custom metrics (ie: StatsD).
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 1 Not under 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

Enhancement of Topology API to provide the "hostname" of the deleted/terminated resources.

NTT (Customer) is using our /events API to retrieve all events. The events API provides the snapshotId of the entity, such as a process. They want the host information for that process, and we suggested using the topology API (/api/infrastructure-...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Planned for future release

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