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Rightsizing recommendation support for Elasticache

Hi team, I believe that a significant number of customers have considerable spend on key AWS services like ElastiCache . It would be highly valuable to have rightsizing recommendations available for the service to help optimize costs and drive gre...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

IBM MQ tracing on IBM i does not work with newer libstdcplusplus6 12.4.0-3 version

IBM MQ tracing on IBM i does not work with newer libstdcplusplus6 12.4.0-3 version, the workaround was to downgrade the lib to 10.5.0-2 Already discussed with Brock Shamblin I think we should either provide a support or mention this in the documen...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Share Cloudability users analytics

Add to the Cloudability admin console a widget with usage by our users (analytics)
7 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Monitor Processes that are in zombie State

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-os-process#process-abnormal-termination Instana does Monitor Process Abnormal Termination, but does not seams to monitor processes that are in zombie sta...
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Monitoring file or directory - Recursive, Counting only files

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-file Currently the probe counts the number of files in a specified folder . If there is a folder within the said folder , its being counted as a file The...
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration

A way to calculate cumulative cost/usage over a period of time using calculated metrics

A simple use case is to track commitments with vendor which normally is yearly based on cumulative usage, we should be able to show it in a chart with target line and cost/usage metric showing cumulative values for the time period selected
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Enable the well-known Tilemap chart, Polystat chart, or Honeycomb Tilemap chart in the custom dashboards

It eliminates the need to integrate other tools with this plugin. Additionally, users always ask us for this chart.
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Filtering of Entities in Quick Add and available Processes when creating Projects

When adding more functionality into Targetprocess the available entites that a user may create through Quick Add grows rapidly. This makes this button cluttered and many entites are not relevant to developers or other team members, creating insecu...
27 days ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Future consideration

Gantt View or Roadmap View that is Drillable

We are utilizing Power BI to build Gantt charts based off of epic, feature, and story dates to meet end user needs. Today in Targetprocess, roadmap views limit you to one entity type and is not drillable. If roadmaps were drillable, this would hel...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 1 Future consideration

Need Account Tags used in Account groups as filters in Rightsizing

As a cloud account owner, I need Account Tags as a filter option in Rightsizing. This feature would allow users to more easily filter and analyze rightsizing recommendations based on specific account tags, such as Business Units or Portfolios, mak...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability 0 Future consideration