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Reporting of Cloudability User Metrics for Administrators

As an Administrator of our Cloudability/ApptioBI system I have a requirement to report on my colleagues overall usage of your products to my management. Namely: Cloudability, ApptioBI, and (limited) TBM/Apptio One. This could be console access, vi...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

We want the ability to configure or override default retention period for Instana backend data dabases for traces/metrics data. For example: We want to store only 7 days of data, and free up EBS space on 8th day.

Hi Team, Current Installation Type: We have installed custom edition of Instana, and we have below datastores installed in our AWS EKS cluster. These backend datastores are using EBS volume. Day by day the data volumes are keep on increasing, and ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 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.
7 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

API enhancement | json support

the API is helpful for situations where using the console isn't possible or ideal (automation, programmatic access, etc.). ibm support said that json as an output is not supported. json as a format is foundational to programmatic operations and AP...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Container Cost Allocation Based on Labels Instead of Namespaces

The customer has over 40 Kubernetes clusters with numerous shared resources within a single namespace across different cost centers. They would like the Kubernetes cost allocation feature to support allocation of resources based on labels, rather ...
25 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Upload Business Mappings via CSV

For many financial teams creating business mappings in the UI is cumbersome and they lack the skills to be able to create JSON. Its been requested that we should provide the ability to upload Business Mapping statements via CSV to Cloudability.
14 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Submitted

Integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs

Currently, Instana's Otel Collector does not support integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs out of the box, which means that its integration with AWS service logs and event functions is inferior to that of its competitors.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 4 Submitted

This customer is looking for the ability to allocate costs within Cloudability to showback their costs related to their MS 360 Infrastructure stack.

Having this functionality would remove the manual workflow processes today to capture the services and costs associated to provide back to the business and finance teams.
8 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Create a custom Field in the Incident Details Overview to save the ITSDM Ticket Number

We have a customer that uses the generic WebHook to integrate with an ITSDM (CA Service Now). Today we don't have any rastreability at Instana, when a ticket is create in the ITSDM. Our first request would be to create a custom field at Incident D...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted