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Better integration of extended domain entities added by Solutions with native entities

There are some very helpful solution packages in TP that add new entities. However, these often integrate poorly with native entities. For example, we added the Product and Component structure which provides product versions. These add capabilitie...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 0 Future consideration

Cloning of Application Perspectives

We are in the process of creating Application Perspectives based on the namespaces in the cluster. Each cluster has 100's of namespaces and each namespaces has services ranging from 5-15. We are creating application perspectives at a service level...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Node Status

We have recently onboarding our Openshift Cluster to Instana for infra monitoring. Today we faced an issue where a node was not in Ready state and hence it generated a lot of incidents related to the Pods in that node. We managed to find the event...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

AD groups feature should allow assigning a default view to the group

Recently released AD group integration in Cloudability only allows user to share view with a group. We would want to be able to assign a default view to a group, so any new group member would have a default view assigned scoped to the given group.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Add a metric to monitor the percentage of system spool consumption (based on PRTPRFINT command)

The IBM i can accumulate spooled files over time and consume significant space, potentially affecting system performance. Currently, this consumption is only reviewed manually using the PRTPRFINT command, which leads to a reactive monitoring appro...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

WAS Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Enterprise Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application Status.
8 months ago in Instana / WAS 0 Future consideration

Support more than one viewing currency per environment

Today, for multi-currency configuration, Cloudability can only support one specified currency per environment. Many of our customers are global entities and have a need to display cloud cost data in the local currency of their sites or offices. Fo...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Remove the need of 'Log on locally' requirement to be set for accounts, without breaking functionallity of IWS application and components.

In our organization providing accounts with 'Log on locally' permission is picked as a Non-standard security configuration and deviating from our security requirements. Installing the product with the options set is OK but we look for that option ...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Limit the cost data users can access to only the accounts they are responsible for, but still allow them the flexibility to create and manage views based on that restricted data.

Our goal is to limit the cost data users can access to only the accounts they are responsible for, but still allow them the flexibility to create and manage views based on that restricted data.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review

Request for Numeric Event IDs in Instana

Title: Support for Numeric Event IDs in Instana Description: Currently, Instana generates event IDs as alphanumeric strings (UUID-like). While this ensures global uniqueness, it makes integration with external systems (e.g., SIEM, ServiceNow, Splu...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release