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Authentication mechanism used for the AWS Observer

One of our customer has a security policy in place, that enforces the following mechanism to be used when accessing AWS: The mechanism is to assume an IAM role in the AWS account using the 'sts:AssumeRoleWithSAML' AWS API call. This returns a set ...
over 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Planned for future release

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric in reports. This is for Cloudability in general. Sometimes we want to have the data ordered first by one dimension and then by other and it is not possible. Example first by payer account then b...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

API Support for Cloudability Containers – Metrics Agent Observability

We greatly value the recently released metrics agent observability tool and believe that enabling API support would unlock even greater potential.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Under review

Filter out GP2 recommendations from Right Sizing

As an Administrator of our Cloudability environment I would like to be able to configure some base Right Sizing preferences to *ignore* all recommendations for AWS GP2 storage. There doesn't appear to be any capability to do that at this time. Aff...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Dark mode in target process

Would be nice to at least have the option for a dark mode in target process to reduce eye strain. Thank you
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 1 Future consideration

Access Admin integrated with Usage data reporting

Integrate Access Admin data with Usage to provide reporting that includes role granted/changed, last time logged in, environment accessed, persona, and customization for persona or organization data. Use case 1: Our security protocol requires user...
9 months ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Visual encoding for hierarchy in the list view

Add a possibility to apply a visual encoding rules also to 1st and 2nd hierarchy levek in list view, not only main cards
9 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 2 Planned for future release

Synthetic Data not available for dashboards

We are not able to create dashboard with synthetics data, use cases: * line graph of historical results of all synthetics in a specific location or by region for x range of days* see all failed synthetics for a pop location or for a region in a gi...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 2

EditRows() function should strictly follow checkbox selections when they are enabled on the Editable Table report component

If the Checkbox option is enabled on an Editable Table component in a Report, the use of the EditRows() function in the action script of a button should only update rows that have the checkbox ticked. If no rows have been ticked, it should not upd...
7 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Add Alert Channels as scope option in Maintenance Windows

Context: Instana's Maintenance Windows feature offers, at the moment, either Application Perspective, Selected Entities (Dynamic Focus) or Synthetic Tests as scopes in order to generate silence windows. Problem: Maintenance Windows is the only fea...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration