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Custom Unique Fields for priorization activities

We want managers to rank lines in their department from 1...n. e.g. Manager from department xyz would use identifiers "xyz-001, xyz-002, xyz-003, ..." to assign to each line item. Each code must only be used once (and in best case, as this would b...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Data Insight feature request: Add dynamic label rotation for path arrows.

User requesting for a feature in Data Insight that allows link labels to automatically align with the direction of the path/arrow. Currently, labels remain horizontal even when a path is diagonal. Having the label tilt to match the angle of the ar...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Log Deduplication for Instana Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector

Many applications generate repetitive log messages within short time intervals. Currently, all instances of these messages are forwarded to the Instana backend, resulting in unnecessary disk space consumption, increased bandwidth utilization. The ...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Breakdown view of how shared cost is computed

Customers using Shared Cost for internal cross-charging and engineering cost accountability are currently unable to reproduce or validate Shared Cost calculations outside the UI. Although documentation and exported data were used to recreate the c...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Under review

We also hope the anomaly alert email can include an English translation of the content to improve communication efficiency.

we are requesting is to have both a visual chart and an item description field included directly in the alert email content.Otherwise, for every alert we need to click into the Cloudability platform separately to locate the details and take screen...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 2 Future consideration

static dashboard (webpage)

A standalone, shareable static dashboard (webpage) that external users can access without needing a Cloudability account, allowing them to view their own cost data directly
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Reports, Dashboards 0 Not under consideration

Provide the option to choose which dimensions and tags are used in segment level detection

The 'top five' tags or dimension may not be relevant to spend. Allowing for the flexibility of choosing which tags/dimensions makes the Anomaly Detection service more powerful
9 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

nstana Agent Operator: Missing Required Images, Incorrect Tag Usage, and No Offline Image Selection in Red Hat Certified Operator Catalog for Air‑Gapped OpenShift Environments

BWI reported that the Instana Agent Operator from the Red Hat Certified Operator Catalog cannot be deployed successfully in air‑gapped OpenShift environments due to several concrete technical issues. Two required container images are missing from ...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Cloudability Forecasting improvement

In Cloudability, the forecasting model skews forecasts post February because of the number of days in Feb. I suggest using a 30 day normalized approach for forecasting to improve the linear forecasting approach. Currently, as a FinOps practitioner...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Planned for future release

Azure San/NetApp, Netapp files, or Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud support?

Many of these targets are supported in some form or another today on prem, but I'm curious if they can be targeted in the cloud in Azure (or other CSPs)
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration