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Tanium integration

Hi, we are planning to configure  Windows Patch Management on Concert Protect and currently using Tanium for the Windows Platform. It would be great to have a supported integration so we could achieve this with the help of a workflow that dir...
22 days ago in Concert Workflows 1 Submitted

Support for Gemma 4 model on vLLM

Dear colleagues, we have a customer, they use Gemma‑4‑26B‑A4B‑IT and are trying to integrate Instana with GEMM A4. Naturally, it is not OpenAI-style content array blocks LLM. So they try to use workaround with vLLM framework. Would be nice if we g...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Allow dashboard widgets to ignore the global date picker

Currently, changing the dashboard’s date picker updates every widget. However, some widgets—such as Monthly Trend and Yearly Trend—need to retain their configured date range to preserve their intended purpose. Add an option that allows individual ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Capture Persistent Volume claim (pvc) storage I/O metrics

we are looking for monitor PVC throughput, IOPS, read/write operations, or other storage I/O metrics for Persistent Volume Claims. TS022752586 - Case confirmed as of today instana do not have this functionality.
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic x ServiceNow integration supporting OAuth2 using a JWT certificate

Bradesco Bank, one of IBM's largest clients in Brazil, is in the process of configuring Turbonomic integration with Service Now. One of its Information Security team's requirements is to use the oAuth2 authentication protocol using a JWT certifica...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 3 Future consideration

Commitment Management 2.0 for Azure Commitment Recommendations

The commitment recommendations functionality in AWS and GCP is great. I would like to see this supported in Azure.
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 6 Planned for future release

Customer Request: Instana SaaS Usage Metering and Cost Forecasting Dashboard

There is a need to provide an Instana SaaS usage metering dashboard and a cost forecasting dashboard,with enhancements requested to reach a comparable level of functionality to what Dynatrace currently provides. Background for the Feature Enhancem...
8 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

Add effective rate and 30 day options to rightsize widgets

Current rightsize widgets are limited to 10 day cash values. I don't imagine many Cloudability customers do not have private pricing or reservations. Effective rate is the only useful metric for my organization and it's not an option. It would be ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Planned for future release

Include allocation tag or bm values in rightsize reports

Current rightsizing reports rely heavily on the use of view filters to isolate and identify the workload represented. I've worked for a couple of organizations as a FinOps expert and when I meet with teams it is not to look at one workload at a ti...

Increase the number of services supported for Sustainability metrics

Currently the Sustainability metrics is supporting 3 services from each of the vendors, AWS, Azure and GCP. There are other major services the customers feels need to be considered for the emission metrics. AWS: Apart from EC2, EBS, and RDS, other...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Sustainability Reporting 0 Future consideration