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Instana SaaS on Azure

In Norway and Nordics Azure is the most used public cloud. Clients have committed spedn to Azure and would like to procure Instana as SaaS hosted in Azure. Ideally also to be able to purchase Instana SaaS through Azure Marketplace.
15 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Be able to indicate a false positive for an anomaly

As a FinOps manager, I would like to be able to assess an anomaly in the anomaly detection feature.Currently on AWS, it is possible to evaluate an anomaly based on several criteria :True anomaly: the cost is unexpected and the error must be analyz...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

Expose container name as part of Kubernetes cost information

We would like to be able to generate dashboard based on Kubernetes costs and we need finer granularity than cluster name. It would be really helpful to also have the container name.
15 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Create custom average line on the basis of only selected planning interval (dynamic)

Need to show the average line for user stories count in the report which will take in consideration only the last four PIs (excluding the current PI). We want to make it work in a way that whenever we move to a new PI (Program Increment), the aver...
15 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Submitted

Apply a filter on "Estimate" widget

As a Finops I would like to be able to apply a filter to my widget, to exclude taxes for example. It would be relevant because a lot of companies doesn't have to pay taxes and doesn't want to track them.
29 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Improve Instana SaaS Account & Billing features by Billing Simulation

The feature of Billing Simulation and Forecast Event Notification in Dynatrace is needed at Instana. - Billing Simulation is displayed until the contract end date, showing three values: upper bound, lower bound, and average. - If an event occurs t...
5 months ago in Instana / GenAI observability 1 Submitted

Assigning user with multiple roles or multiple external user groups

Enterprises are getting complex and role of a FinOps, DevOps or SRE is getting more fragmented. With this direction in the organization, a FinOps team member may want to have a readonly/observer privilege on all the resources, but more actionable ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Submitted

Allow multiple custom rules setup including http.header fields e.g. X-Instana-Service

We run multitechnology service architecture and therefore want to be able to map instana service name on multilevel custom rules e.g. http.header fileds.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

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 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Associate synthetic tests to websites and mobile apps using the Terraform provider

Synthetic tests can be associated with applications, websites and mobile apps using the UI, but the terraform provider only supports the association with applications. We would like a way to get the association done for synthetic tests as well wit...
3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted