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Adding functionality for correlating ACE services with the backend.

Hi Team, This AHA request is linked to IBM Support case TS019666166 regarding unmonitored components in our infrastructure. We request product enhancement to provide visibility and correlation for these components within Instana The component in q...
10 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Support Cost Estimation for Scale Actions Without Billing Data Using AWS Public Pricing

In cases where cloud contracts are managed through vendors, it is sometimes not possible to reference the corresponding Billing targets. Under the current specification, this limitation prevents accurate cost calculations for scale actions due to ...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

Cloudability MCP (Model Context Protocol)

We are currently building a FinOps Assistant GENAI, we have already other sources to enhance our FinOps assistant e.g AWS Billing and Cost Management official MCP, JIRA official MCP, DataDog official MCP and so on. What we are missing now is the C...
19 days ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Continuously sending alerts (or expiring alerts) past a defined threshold to avoid overlooking.

We have encountered a critical operational challenge: When a single alert is triggered and then overlooked or ignored, there is currently no built-in capability within Instana to continuously resend or reissue that alert past a defined threshold o...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Add subgrouping to Infrastructure View

Hi team, our customer would like to have the possibility of having more than one-level of grouping in the Infrastructure View (something like sub-zone concept), so they can manage the complexity of their infrastructure Platform and have a better v...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Allow more options for Perspective and Grouping in the Infrastructure View

Hi team, we know currently we can use Zones, which are the default display in the Infrastructure View, and then we can use Host or Container Grouping based on a defined set of attributes like CPU, OS, K8S namespace, etc. We explored the Tag Prefix...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Add Alias option for Hosts

Hi team, When monitoring a Host, the naming is based on the FQDN. Sometimes this name is not explanatory or easily identifiable by Instana users, especially when a customer has a big amount of hosts being monitored. It would be great to have the p...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Resizing widget locks scope. This is wrong behavior.

To reproduce, Search for Host clusters. Select any cluster. On the overview screen, resize the Host optimized improvements chart. Now as you advance through the other clusters, while other widgets will show that they are now scoped to the new clus...
11 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

IBM Concert SaaS support Private Link

It is better for Concert to provide private Link option for its service, like other IBM SaaS solution such as Instana or HCP Vault.
11 days ago in Concert 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...
3 months ago in Instana / Observability of AI 1 Submitted