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Add support for Oracle Enterprise Service Bus

Support for extracting metrics, logs, and traces from an Oracle Enterprise Service Bus.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Allow users to change the pre-defined severity of a built-in event and allow to change the related metric thresholds

There is a bunch of built-in events, but in some cases users won't agree with the severity level of the events or the selected metric thresholds. Please allow users to change these in built-in events. Seems like something that should have been pos...
about 4 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Self-Monitoring Instana with Instana - Document Instana custom metrics

(Self-Hosted) Instana instances can be fully monitored using Instana. If you know which metrics (custom metrics in Instana) to look out for when workload or resources change. Instana should provide up-to-date documentation of internal custom metri...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Future consideration

Show Parent Widget Name on Widget edit screen.

For example, if we would like to create a custom widget with "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity which used on "Cloud Executive Dashboard", but finding "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity from "Add Widget" function is not a easy task unfotunatelly...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Create an event for the SUSPECT STATE database metric in MS SQL

We need to create an event when the database is in SUSPECT STATE equal to YES and notify this state. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.305?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server In the Instana's event page, we canno...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

Allow date filters based on Invoice Date not only usage date

When validating Invoices, the usage date and the invoice periods are not always the same. We need to validate invoices that include usage in the future (esp for GCP which bills in PST vs. UTC). Allowing the date filter to be based on usage date, w...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Planned for future release

Enhanced Anomaly Detection

currently, CLDY takes multiple days to detect and notify a cost anomaly. Customer needs a shorter timeline for the notification, as each additional hour/day may lead to hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional cost. This feature is planned f...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Additional metrics from DataDog to Cloudability

DataDog is the customer’s corporate observability solution. They would like CLDY to gather additional metrics from DataDog, for example, EC2 memory and EKS metrics, as they are restricted by the security team to install additional agents to their ...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Under review

Optimization recommendations for additional AWS Services (e.g.: CloudWatch, DynamoDB, Glue, Analytics Services, ECS)

Optimization recommendations for additional AWS Services (e.g.: CloudWatch, DynamoDB, Glue, Analytics Services, ECS)
12 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Needs more information

The new Anomaly Feedback Feature should share information across the domain of users when someone reviews and adjudicates an anomaly finding. This will streamline communications ensuring multiple users aren't doing duplicate work.

The new Anomaly Feedback Feature that replaced the thumbs up/thumbs down should share information across the domain of users when someone reviews and adjudicates an anomaly finding.  For example, if I mark a detected anomaly as insignificant,...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted