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Commitment Support OCI

Adding supported commitment types across OCI instances as well. It would help us get commitment recommendations from OCI as well. We have significant amount of spending on OCI as well
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 4 Future consideration

Filter - show options based on current filter

When we filter a report based on multiple filters, if we select a Line of Business and then want to filter on a Business Unit, it would be good to see under Business Units only the BUs included in the LOB selected
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

an option to send PDF export for Dashboards by email and a schedule this email

adding an option to Instana to export the dashboards and send it by email to non-Instana users. this will be helpful to share dashboards with managers, stakeholders and non technical team. also adding the option to schedule this report to send a m...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Planned for future release

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Not under consideration

Filter Enhancement - ROI Rightsizing, Rightsizing - Upgrade Filters

Enhance filters for ROI tickets within the ROI Rightsizing module & from within report module. As a FinOps practitioner required to report on adoption rates & realized savings, I need to be able to: report on ROI tickets actioned during sp...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Azure Services like Databricks, or AKS that create VMs should appear as a property in those VM entities.

With these properties being visible, Customer can create policies to exclude from policies VMs that are being managed by Azure Services. Customer can create UNPARKABLE collections based on Azure Services. Right now with 1000s of VMs, there is too ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 4 Not under consideration

Request for Instana’s authentication function

The customer would like to request to enable the use of multiple (at least two) Azure AD tenants for SAML authentication IdP. Our customer is using two Azure AD tenants as the authentication provider. One is for headquarter, the other is for IT su...
3 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Submitted

Commitment Support for Azure OpenAI Service Provisioned

Commitment Support for Azure OpenAI Service Provisioned
7 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 2 Future consideration

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
10 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

Sharing Private Layouts in IT Planning

We have a layout in the labor tab that is used periodically throughout the year when exporting out of IT Planning.  In order to prevent our user base from editing it, I have marked the layout as private.  However, this limits other admin...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration