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Add assignment option at policy creation

When creating policies, there is no option to select an assignee. If the policy creates 250 cloudability issues, then we have to go through each task and manually add the assignee. It would be incredibly helpful to select the assignee name at poli...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Revise the Report Screen

Adjusting the Reports section to allow for people to either select their own top 10 or be able to star reports even if they did not create them. Currently the listing is a bit too busy for the average end user.
10 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

HAProxy Tracing

Tracing capabilities for HAProxy, similar to what is already available for nginx
about 3 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 0 Planned for future release

Show Cost on the Commitment Portfolio table

Currently there are a couple of extra clicks to open a separate report to get to the cost during the selected Reporting Range for the RI's or Savings Plans. Would be nice to have the Cost as another column next to Unrealized Savings.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 1 Needs more information

Auto Profile support for AIX

Auto Profile support for AIX https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=monitoring-profiles https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=processes-configuring-profiling From the above link: At the moment Aut...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Cross teams/areas 3 Planned for future release

Keep Apptio Gov Help Up To Date with Commercial

The gov version of Apptio Help seems to not get updated as often as Commercial. According to gov help on 2/10/25 (https://help-gov.apptio.com/cloudability/whats-new.htm), the last update to Cloudability was on September 30, 2024.
9 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Help & Training 1 Planned for future release

Ability to search/filter in a table widget on Dashboard

Currently if you have a long list of items in a table widget, there is no way to search or filter so you have to scroll through the entire list to find what you are looking for. Could we have the same ability to filter a table, as we do in Apptio ...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Enable support for Tetrate Istio Side-Car tracing

Hi Team, Arlo has submitted a request to implement a support feature that involves tracing the envoy-proxy container. The request is documented under the support ticket number TS013593419. The support feature is required to be based on Tetrate Ist...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 0 Future consideration

Monitoring NGINX on Windows host

I've noticed that the monitoring of NGINX on Windows hosts is currently unavailable. Therefore, for clients using NGINX on Windows, this becomes a vital factor to take into account.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 4 Not under consideration

Handle http status code 0 not as error

Envoy is becoming a popular reverse proxy in the cloud native space. Although it is supported by Instana for monitoring and tracing, we found one case where traces are marked as erroneous, but should not be: Client disconnects. When a client close...
over 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 2 Not under consideration