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Support CUR 2.0/BCM Data Export Configuration at Individual Linked Account Level in Vendor Credentials API

Currently the Cloudability vendor credentials API link account resource only accepts three fields vendor Account ID , type and region. The CUR configuration at the linked account level is not supported . Individual linked accounts inherit CUR conf...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Please build a dedicated Instana sensor for IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps (CP4AIOps) running on Red Hat OpenShift.

We request IBM to develop a dedicated Instana sensor for IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps (CP4AIOps) running on Red Hat OpenShift. At present, we use Instana K8Sensor together with the Instana agent to monitor OpenShift and workloads running on it, includi...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Allow customers to schedule or automate the import of baseline plan data from Apptio Costing into IT Planning.

Currently, publishing data from Apptio Costing (CT) into IT Planning (ITP) — specifically Labor Activity data — is a fully manual process. There is no option to schedule or automate this data flow. Our use case involves using Datalink to send time...
7 months ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Improve stanctl down behavior

We used stanctl down and rebooted. After system start gateway-controller and gateway pods were running. Then executed stanctl down again and got the following error: root@instanak3s1:~# stanctl down Do you want to shut down the Instana cluster? : ...
7 months ago in Instana / Common 0

Add integration with Okta

Add integration with Okta.As written in the FAQ page, "Currently Entra ID is one of the most widely used IDP (Identity Provider). There are many other IDPs such as Okta, PingIdentify. At present, we’re only supporting Microsoft Entra ID (aka Azure...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Future consideration

Clear All

When using the search bar in a table in Costing or Studio, to reset you need to clear out the filter. This is cumbersome if you have filtered on multiple columns. It would be great to have a global 'clear all' button to easily reset the table.
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Planned for future release

Visualization of the top 5% (the part excluded in the case of 95pt)

I would like you to visualize the parts that are excluded in the case of 95pt (top 5%). This is to see the load conditions that are excluded from the optimization action considerations.I would like to use it as a reference for changes between 95pt...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Need to support HCD Datastax Cassandra configuration

Dear Team, at the moment Instana agent is not able to recognise HCD Datastax Cassandra configuration and it looks like the agent sees the container and JVM inside it, but doesn't collect metrics from Cassandra instance. this make a gap between cas...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Provide some user control over text/font scaling in widgets, and more flexibility in sizing & layout of widgets on the screen.

As an author of monthly and quarterly reports for senior management, a live presentation from Cloudability dashboards and reports is not a viable option. Screenshots pasted into a PowerPoint deck (or equivalent) is the standard business process in...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Allow alphabetical & numeric sorting by column

Enable users to sort table data by any column using alphabetical (A–Z / Z–A) or numeric (ascending / descending) sorting to improve data analysis, usability, and decision‑making efficiency.
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 1 Needs more information