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Custom Metrics Collection via Scripts ( Bash / Python etc.,)

From agent to execute scripts and feed the data to Instana for custom alerts and metrics.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Automation / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Carbon calculation updates - factor in flexibility/history archive or rebaseline for customer operational processes

The recent update to the Carbon calculations in CLDY has highlighted an improvement area that would help with customer adoption. Customers who baselined using the previous calcs would have seen their numbers jump 4x with the recent change to the c...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Other / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Provide access to a sustainability emissions metric in KGCO2e

the existing emissions metric is in MTCO2e. In addition, data is shown in Apptio BI to a max of 2 decimal places. As the unit is large and the decimal precision is just 2 d.p. this means that for a lot of use cases emissions show as zero when they...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration

Anomoly detection for incorrect pricing being received from vendors

Recent pricing anomolies in dev/test SKU pricing for certain Intel SKUs in North Switzerland resulted in 'incorrect' optimisation opportunities being presented to customer. Whilst the fault was with Microsoft and their pricing, the impact was seen...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection / Other 0 Future consideration

Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards

Instana ingests lots of data and we need different ways to represent it, one of the things that can be helpful is to have a Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Include / Exclude option for Cloud Service Provider(s)

Whilst I appreciate that Cloudability is a Multi-cloud SaaS service, it would be really nice if the customer could toggle the various CSP's off or on as a configuration setting. If a customer is only using a single CSP, it would be beneficial to t...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration

Prometheus complex queries in Custom Dashboards

Hi team, I want to use Prometheus complex queries in widgets, something like this: sum( avg(container_cpu_allocation) by (pod,node) * on (node) group_left() avg(avg_over_time(node_cpu_hourly_cost[10m])) by (node) * on (pod) group_left() label_repl...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Allow access to our Cloudability backend to see logs

Allow access to our Cloudability backend to see logs
8 months ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Future consideration

Make 'current_view' dropdown "stick" to the top of the current page

Hello, I want to submit a solution for making the 'current_view' dropdown stick on the top of the current page. I already made a proposal for fixing this which would make minor changes to the frontend. It will only move elements and make them stic...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration

Custom dashboard - last value

Through Prometheus, we are gathering in Instana a gauge metric that shows if an instance is active (1) or inactive (0). We'd like to show this value in a custom dashboard using a 'Big number widget' or a 'Top list widget'. It would be great if we ...
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Future consideration