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Utilise K8s secrets for InstanaAgent configuration

We are currently using the Instana Agent operator in Red Hat Openshift, and need to configure the Instana Agents. There are several places where use of secrets are in plaintext - this is problematic as we use gitops to manage the configuration of ...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Cloudability Dynamic Currency Service

Rather than use a manual upload of currencies for managing cldy cross platform currencies, it would make sense to use a dynamic service to make an API call and set this in the platform as opposed to a manual upload. API is also a must
18 days ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Submitted

Ability to limit API Access/Generate API Keys

While Cloudability API access keys can be generated by any user, the role assigned to the user with the key dictates what the users can and can't do with API calls. For example, a base CLDY User role can't do anything with business mappings, as th...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Not under consideration

Agent Installation - Can provide an option to over-write the default `/tmp/.instana` folder PATH location to a path of the customers choice

While enabling Java Virtual threads Customer lost tracing of event calls. Further debugging with Instana support team, they found that the issue is that Instana is losing its temporary files staged in `/tmp/.instana/*` folder. As per Instana suppo...
12 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Planned for future release

Enable the System Uptime metric in the events for all hosts

Enable the metric to create events when a server has been rebooted recently, e.g., when its uptime is less than 5 minutes.
9 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Windows operating system support (ARM architecture)

Support the installation of agent in Windows (ARM) for collection of the operating system metrics and identification of the technologies running on the host.
26 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

API enhancement | json support

the API is helpful for situations where using the console isn't possible or ideal (automation, programmatic access, etc.). ibm support said that json as an output is not supported. json as a format is foundational to programmatic operations and AP...
26 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

GlassFish Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application when it is not enabled.
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Alert notifications or subscriptions via Slack / Teams, etc.

Companies are getting away from email and moving to messaging platforms like Slack and Teams. Customers want to subscribe alerts to specific Slack channels vs. getting an email.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Future consideration

Cloudability MCP (Model Context Protocol)

We are currently building a FinOps Assistant GENAI, we have already other sources to enhance our FinOps assistant e.g AWS Billing and Cost Management official MCP, JIRA official MCP, DataDog official MCP and so on. What we are missing now is the C...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability / Other 1 Under review