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Introduce 24x7 alerting feature for servers being monitored by Instana

Clients at KSRSAC, DBBL, Alice Blue (IBM lost this deal), Nabil Bank have requested alerting to be made available when a server shuts down. During PoC they would intentionally shut down a server and ask the sales team, how would they know if the s...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

"Di Device Summary" Customize or Disable

The "Device Summary" option works fine in a "small environment". When there are thousands of devices / thousands of objects for a device this functionality is incredibly painful. Either it should be able to be customized or disabled completely. Fo...
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 4 Future consideration

Oracle's Commercial Discounts are not available in the Cloudability

Currently, we are able to create reports for AWS EDP discounts, but not for OCI's Universal Credits with Commercial Discounts for our organization. When reviewing the Rate Optimization KPI, our goal is to show the discounts we receive from the CSP...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Integrate AWS S3 Storage Lens metrics into Cloudability

Currently, Storage Lens provides valuable insights into S3 usage, growth trends, data protection, and optimization opportunities, but these metrics are only available within AWS. Having them available in Cloudability would allow us to correlate S3...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 2 Future consideration

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Not under consideration

Dark mode in target process

Would be nice to at least have the option for a dark mode in target process to reduce eye strain. Thank you
about 2 years ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 1 Future consideration

Optimazation Filter Builder area Conditions / Dependent

More than 1000 users work on our Netcool Tivoli system CA-EM with version 8.1.0.35. To organize the work, the filter function is very much used here. Currently over 1000 global filters and even more private filters are used. We want to optimize th...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add Databricks cluster names to Cloudability for Databricks GCP

Cloudability Databricks GCP connector is not bringing in Databricks cluster names. As result it is difficult to use Cloudability to understand which Databricks GCP cluster contributed to costs. Cloudability shows Databricks Azure cluster names. Da...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 3 Future consideration

Add ability to send a link to a folder – the recipient would see the folder highlighted in their UI

Ability to send a link to a folder should be added and if possible, the recipient should see the folder highlighted in their User Interface.
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Reports 1 Future consideration

Custom Dashborads - Axis and Widget legend display

Hi team, please allow the possibility to format the y-Axis, so it displays more values (not just the upper value). Regarding the Legends, in some cases they are displayed perfectly, but sometimes, when there are many metrics displayed, or few metr...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration