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On account (subscription) closure or suspension in Azure or AWS, provide functionality to automatically archive or delete the vendor credentials (user selection).

Useful: This is useful for anyone that works in an environment where change management is difficult (most large enterprises) and being able to specify a setting to automatically scavenge (cleanup) close accounts or subscriptions would save a lot o...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Dynamic Calendar year filter at data source level

We would like to request support for applying a dynamic Calendar Year filter at the source level, instead of hardcoding a specific year within report filter criteria. Currently, to meet reporting requirements, we have implemented a workaround by h...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Future consideration

Automatically onboard new OpenShift namespaces

When new application namespaces are created in OpenShift, an agent restart is required for them to be recognized before instrumentation activity will commence. In an OpenShift cluster with 47 nodes, agent restarts can be a disruptive operation. I ...
8 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Planned for future release

Add Forecast Details Tab next to Summary and Actuals tabs in the Variance Analysis Variance Driver and Comments screen

The Variance Analysis Variance Driver and Comments screen currently includes a Summary tab and Actuals tab. The Summary tab is a waterfall of Budget to Forecast by the selected dimension, but users would like to easily view relevant budget detail ...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

Be able to create parenthesis in filter and select if AND or OR

Be able to create parenthesis in filter and select if AND or OR. For example be able to filter for vendor AWS, usage family Storage and for Azure, usage family Instances (vendor=AWS AND usage family = storage) OR (vendor=Azure AND usage family=Ins...
almost 2 years ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 3

Create an alert that notifies SaaS customers when targets are in "Critical" status

It would be extremely helpful and proactive to have an alert that's sent when a target's status changes to Critical. Currently the only way to know target status has changed is to login to the solution and visually check the notification section o...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0

Regarding Monitoring of Multiple PostgreSQL Instances on a Single Server

In terms of PostgreSQL monitoring, if a single instance contains multiple databases, it is possible to monitor all databases. However, my understanding is that it is not possible to monitor multiple instances when there are several instances on a ...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Future consideration

RBAC to restrict Workflow publish permission for concert workflow users

We are looking to onboard users with permissions that allow them to develop and edit workflows, but restrict them from publishing workflows. Currently, all users have the ability to publish workflows, which is both a security and a cost concern. A...
6 months ago in Concert Workflows 1 Under review

Custom Field changes in Configuration Log

If someone makes changes to a custom field configuration, such as creating or deleting a custom field, changing the default value, renaming, etc, it does not show up in the Configuration Log. These kinds of changes are important and should be incl...
6 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Custom Dashboards: integrating Analytics' filters

Not every client Instana user is an expert in the tools that it provides, and may not handle complex tasks with ease. Having the Analytics' saved filters as an automatic option integration in Custom Dashboarding would save a lot of time and possib...
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration