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ADF pileline plugin jobs job log in IWA is basic but in TIDAL the log is very detailed.

ADF pileline plugin jobs job log in IWA is basic but in TIDAL the log is very detailed.  Application teams running jobs in TIDAL is finding this useful for analysis but its is refferred as a limitation in IWA. Refer the attached job log from ...
26 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Dashboard: show chart values option in Pie charts

We have migrated all our dashboards from Apptio BI to the new dashboards but some features are still missing. To make the Pie charts easier to read, can you propose the options "Show chart value" and "Display by %" for the Pie Chart like in Apptio...
26 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Dashboard: display Net and Percent changes in the same table

In the Table Widget Type, displaying both net and percent changes will be help in some report to provide more context on some cost changes. In addition to sort the line either by Net or by Percent change will be also helpful. For example high perc...
26 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Include anomaly feedback and configured dimensions in Anomaly Detection CSV exports

Enhance Anomaly Detection CSV exports to include the feedback captured against each anomaly, together with the dimensions configured by the organisation for anomaly detection. Feedback: Including anomaly feedback in the export would help central F...
26 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

Enable Dashboard Creation and Management via API in Cloudability

Enable customers to create, configure, and manage Cloudability dashboards programmatically through APIs. Currently, dashboard creation and widget management is only possible through the Cloudability UI, which doesn't scale for teams managing multi...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

SAP Cloud ALM Monitoring

With the SOLMAN EOS we are planning the migration to SAP Cloud ALM, and need support for monitoring and tracing in this application
3 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Future consideration

Default dimensions for Rightsizing Explorer

I would like to set my own personal preference for dimensions to default on Rightsizing Explorer. I seldom use region and OS on the explorer so I would prefer to not see them every time I open the Rightsizing page. This would be great to cache or ...

Nutanix monitoring - Possibility to restrict monitoring of VMs

For Nutanix technology, customer is asking to have the possibility to enable monitoring for selected VMs only (like the implementation for Idea INSTANA-I-4349 regarding vSphere technology).
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Latency (round trip delay )PPM for pairs to be ignored if utilizing the link >80%

we need to add utilization of interfaces on STMicroelectronics account , stmicro this in order to set condition so if the utilization either TX or RX is = > 80% the ticket/alarm not to be raised.
7 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 0 Future consideration