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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

Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
11 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Obtain metrics for paging errors BD/NBD and PERM - TEMP addresses on the IBM i system

Clients have frequently inquired about the ability of Instana to provide additional metrics for IBM i environments. As we know, the current monitoring capabilities include key metrics related to jobs, subsystems, CPU and ASP capacity, history logs...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Rightsizing recommendations for AWS Dynamo DB

Customers are looking for advice on how to optimize Dynamo DB
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

filter by Account Name/ID

In the Rightsizing section, if it can add filters by Account Name or Account ID dimensions, it will be much handy for use to manage the rightsizing distribution.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Object groups & device groups should not be allowed to be deleted, if a policy uses that group.

How it works currently : Upon deleting a device/object group, the associated policy also gets deleted. How should it work: When trying to delete a device/object group that is associated with a policy, an error/warning should be thrown to the user....
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 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