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We should be able to pull Azure Utilization data into reports and dashboards in Cloudability & Apptio BI

Currently utilization data for Azure is in Resource Inventory. But we need to be able to pull it into reports and create widgets for our dashboards. Our IT teams and leaders would want to see these metrics in a summarized way without having to go ...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Ability to generate forecast in plans for up to 6 years

We have some long range commitments with Cloud Service Providers for next 5 years. For us to track that under plans, we will need to forecast for next 6 years starting from this year. But since the current plan feature allows for only up to 3 year...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Add some sample workflows and documentation for Expect SSH Integration into the Automation Library

At this time, there is no good documentation or samples for the ExpectSSH integration. While it could be argued that it's not needed, it's very difficult for a user to know how to design a workflow that uses the ExpectSSH array format. Know that t...
17 days ago in Concert Workflows 0 Submitted

Making "Your Month so Far" report more realistic in Current Month tab (Budget & Forecasting)

At the beginning of each month, the Estimated Monthly Cost and the % difference compared to last month often show unrealistically positive downward trend. However, as the days progress, the trend usually shifts and the numbers get worse. This earl...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 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...
25 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Provision DNS & SSL tests using the Terraform provider

Http action & scripts can be provisioned using Terraform. This is not possible right now for DNS & SSL tests.
25 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Tree view for Projects dropdown similar to Departments dropdown in ITP

Projects dropdown will display top-level nodes with expand/collapse options to drill into lower levels. Provides clear visibility of hierarchy, improves navigation, and ensures consistency with the Departments dropdown. It will save time for users...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

Instana agents count metric not available in Smart Alerts

From customer: While attempting to create an alert to monitor the metric "Count (Number of reporting Instana Agents)", we noticed that this metric is not available under: Infrastructure → Create Smart Alert → Metric → Select metric, Interestingly,...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Set Two-Factor Authentication from the Administrator User

What do we expect?: The option to set "Two-factor authentication" (in Settings - User Settings - Personal Settings - Security Access - Authentication - Session Timeouts - Session Settings - Two-factor authentication) in the Instana SaaS Backend ca...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Planned for future release

Set Session Settings for User Groups

The option to set "User session timeout" and "Idle session timeout" (in Settings - Security Access - Authentication - Session Timeouts - Session Settings) in the Instana SaaS backend should be allowed to be set for groups of users, rather than for...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration