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Conditional or Correlated Alert Logic in Instana (e.g., “Alert on X unless Y is high”)

We would like to have the ability to define conditional or correlated alert logic in Instana. For example, we need to trigger an alert when there are too many 404 responses on a specific endpoint, but only if the number of login requests is not hi...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Support for AWS Cost Categories

We currently have AWS cost categories in place and is extensively used to reflect our organisation structure, ownership and allocation for our costs. Rather than redoing this work via Business Mapping it would be great if Cloudability could import...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

In Infrastructure Map, change the normal status color of zOS node boxes from Gray to White

In the infrastructure map, all normal nodes are in white, other than zOS nodes which are in gray color and appears to be inactive. We integrate OMEGAMON infrastructure metric at OS level only for zOS node, not other component. As for distributed n...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Ability to Reassign Ownership of Dashboards and Reports

It would be helpful to have a reassign ownership option, similar to Apptio BI, so that when someone leaves the org, they can just change the ownership of their reports. Unless I'm mistaken, the method now for dashboards would be to duplicate a das...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Future consideration

Gateway for Message_Bus v2 should include Transformer (and be fully compatible to nco_g_xml)

The new release of the Message Bus Gateway (v2) is announced as being more reliable and having better performance than the existing nco_g_xml. However, it turns out to not contain all the functionality. Our customer (main German Telco company) is ...
4 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

to add attachment option in email alerting using EWS probe

to enable the email alerting with the attachment. Currently in our environment we are monitoring email alerting with EWS probe in the standard format without any attachment option but we are currently trying to add some attachment in XML format so...
4 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Needs more information

Ability to hide/disable shared costs in container insights page

Every organisation will have its own way to calculate shared container costs, cloudability by default is showing the shared costs which it thinks could be part of shared costs,it is adding confusion to the users, we don't have the ability to hide/...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 2 Functionality already exists

Make Object Types Searchable by OID or indicator name

Right now if someone comes to me and asks me to enable crasSVCNumSessions / .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.392.1.3.35 it's kind of a nightmare. Under Object Types I cannot search by OID or via the indicator type "crasSVCNumSessions". The best I can currently do...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration

Provide the ability to restrict user groups to a single specific view

This will ensure particular set of users will only be able to view the data they own / are authorized to view. Right now, since this feature is unavailable, users are able to see other views also
3 months ago in Cloudability / Views 4 Under review

Support for instrumenting Gunicorn in python

At the moment when using gunicorn we have to manually instrument the application, which add some complexity in the Development process
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Python 5 Planned for future release