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Amend Right Sizing Columns

Ability to amend Optimize > Rightsizing Table to include custom dimensions/business mappings We create a monthly workbook that includes all the rightsizing recommendations from Cloudability, however we are not able to edit the columns to pull i...

Native HA for the Self Hosted Instana Backend

In a self-hosted Instana backend setup, there is no native support for redundancy or high availability (HA), resulting in a single point of failure. This poses a risk to monitoring continuity in the event of a node or service outage. We kindly req...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Future consideration

Enable a mobile application to extend SevOne monitoring functions beyond the desktop.

Clients want to view their networks and infrastructure from their smartphones on Android or iOS.
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration

Enable to configure the transition time of an Incident auto‑closure behaviour

The current behaviour in Cloud Pak for AIOps automatically transitions incidents from “Resolved” to “Closed” after a short, fixed period (approximately 120 seconds). At present, this transition time is not configurable. Bell’s ServiceNow operation...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Create business mapping dimensions dynamically

I'd like to be able to create business mappings dynamically. For example, using regular expressions to dynamically create new business mappings each time an expression is matched. I would be much easing rather than create a specific statement for ...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2 Future consideration

AWS EFS (Elastic File Storage) recommendations

Can AWS EFS be considered (if possible) as an additional service in the Rightsizing / Optimization engine. A possible review mechanism would be limited IO or other read/write operations being made against Provisioned Throughput storage, advising u...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Ability to disable all sensors and discovery, and only enable those that we require

Our requirement: We want the ability to disable all sensors and their discovery routines globally, and then explicitly enable only the ones we need. This would mean no discovery or idle checks for technologies we do not use, and no unnecessary sen...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Support filter dependencies at Dashboard level

When Execs look at a dashboard and want to drill down they may not know the structure of all the teams. Filter Dependencies should apply to dashboard level so that people can quickly delve down with out having to remember which teams are part of w...
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 1 Not under consideration

AWS Fargate service support

We are currently migrating from EC2 to Fargate. Since the functionality is already available in AWS, via the "Compute Optimizer" feature, I would like some advice in Cloudability on how to optimize the capacity of my ECS Fargate tasks. More inform...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Cloudability - AWS Vendor Credential - Regional Restrictions - Should apply to validation & scanning

Useful: Many enterprises have service control policies that limit the regions that a given enterprise can operate in. Today, you can set a region on the AWS vendor credentials, but that only limits the verification or validation call to that regio...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration