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Select the authentication method at the Instana UI Login

Instana supports just one authentication method, this of course affects at Login and there is no other way the customer can select a different way to login, basically, if the current authentication method is broken for some reason, the customer ha...
8 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance 3 Not under consideration

Enable metric "Cost (Shared)" in "Reports, Dashboards", currently available in "Container Reporting".

Committing cross-charges based on "Cost (Shared)" are not visible to users in "Reports, Dashboards". The current visible metrics in "Reports, Dashboards" are insufficient: (i) Cost (Utilized), (ii) Cost (Idle), and (iii) Cost (Fairshare) The metri...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Future consideration

Increase Account Group Limit

We are currently facing a limitation where the account group field setting allows a maximum of only ten groups, which is no longer sufficient for our customers. Therefore, we hope to increase the number of available account group fields.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Functionality already exists

Cloudability View Definition improvement

As a Cloudability Admin I would like to be able to define Views based on the Payer Account Id, and other core fields so that I can define the views that my users need. My organisation has multiple Payer Account Ids, and I do need to use that field...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Views 5

Please add seconds parameter in the input dates field for UI time range section

In general, logs are generated at a nanosecond level. However, in Instana, the current filtering and time range adjustment options are limited to a minimum of one minute. While this granularity may suffice for some use cases, it becomes insufficie...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 2 Not under consideration

WebGUI runwaapi.sh Password Parameter uncrypted

runwaapi.sh from WEGGUI has a password parameter, which need the password in plaintext. While the command is running the password can be seen in the process table, which typicaly will be seen by monitoring tools. The password parameter should not ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Functionality already exists

Topology REST API for the Service Now

We need to expose the Topology REST API for the Service Now team to consume. However, the authentication of the API is limited to HTTP Basic, and current the only available username/password pair is from a K8s secret. As confirm by this support ti...
over 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Improvements to alert generation and storage tracking would help prevent high alert count based performance impacts.

A significant factor in SevOne cluster performance is the size of the alerts table.SevOne identifies 2 million alerts as the benchmark point for when negative impacts to performance may be seen.However, there is no warning or alerting mechanism fo...
10 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 4 Future consideration

Visualize realized savings for actions taken in a specific timeframe

The realized savings widget shows savings for all actions taken historically, even when a specific timeframe is scoped. In order to properly report on the realized savings from a specific date, we only want to see the savings that start to accrue ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Datadog metrics in Reports&ApptioBI

Cloudability is currently ingesting and consuming Datadog metrics; this is visible in the Rightsizing module. We request having this data (metrics) to be present in a data source (Rightsizing or Cost&Usage) in Apptio BI and Native Reports. We ...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration