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The compare function in Reports is not configured correctly

The compare function is designed to work the way by default, considering the "Previous Period" date range. Previous Period, here refers to considering the number same of days (period) in the current selection for the comparison. Hence the results....
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Planned for future release

Add option for aggregation function (avg, max) for custom metrics

Hello, Can you please add an option to chose aggregation function when displaying custom metrics? In attached example you can see that metrics are collected every 1 second but when you choose larger time interval then instana automatically aggrega...
8 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Under review

Ability to report and filter on Commitment type (All Upfront, Partial Upfront, No Upfront)+

We would be able to compare in reports total cost and how the different commitment types impact the savings. Plus be able to filter out all upfront costs from Amortized costs.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 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...
8 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 ...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Whenever data export from the Cloudability bucket to the CCM bucket fails, customer should be receiving a notification /alert stating the same

Whenever data export from the Cloudability bucket to the CCM bucket fails, customer should be receiving a notification /alert stating the same. This will help them to communicate wioth their stakeholders that there will be discrepancy in cloud num...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Submitted

Add Cross-Cloud Data Transfer Costs in Workload Planning

In Workload Planning, it would be highly beneficial for customers to have visibility into cross-cloud data transfer costs. For example, if a workload operates across both AWS and Azure, the associated data transfer costs between these clouds shoul...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Not under consideration

Align the data colors between 2 graphs in Container Cost Allocation >> Treemap page

The 2 visual components refer to the same data - but the colors for each component is different between them - which makes it harder for the user to track the data.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1

Provide scheduling recommendations

Would be great if Cloudability would provide recommendations on what (compute) resources to put on a schedule (e.g. start/stop on the weekends) and if we can also create a Cloudability issue for this that enables us to track the savings.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

MSP are manually processing AWS MAP credits, and they need an automated way of achieving this.

AWS offers an extremly complex way of receiving credits back for workloads that are being migrated to Aws from onprem. This complexity is by design to make sure for most part that credits are never realized. This requires enormous tagging of workl...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Not under consideration