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Move the Rightsizing preferences from the high admin level to the rightsizing page for each use to chose for himself as a filter

As a big organization Admins we have a lot of accounts under the Cloudability org. and each is in a different place and path in the rightsizing process. We want to enable our user the ability to choose from low level of complication action to high...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Add a section for alerts in the host view

When searching for alerts set for a VM/host, you have to navigate to alerts and filter through all the alerts to see which may be applicable to that host. It would be easier if you could navigate to the host and see which alerts are tied to that s...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 Future consideration

Cloudability | Optimize -> Rightsizing -> Filters -> Status

Under Optimize - > Rightsizing menu under Azure there are resources displayed which has tickets created and tickets are in Done state. Would be great to have opportunity to filter out (exclude alll Done tickets) tickets with status "Done". That...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Not under consideration

Provision of Instana backend api function endpoint to retrieve agent sensor versions

I would be very useful to have an api endpoint in instana backend that delivered agent sensor versions.
4 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Needs more information

Make it a rightsizing preference option to allow changes to/from confidential SKUs

Currently the rightsizing engine does not provide the capability to control recommendations between confidential and non-confidential SKUs in Azure. I can't imagine many customers want to flip flop between the two types of SKU as Microsoft prices ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Group synthetic tests for better overview and navigation

It would be nice to create groups and assign tests to one or multiple groups to make it easier to find tests for team members or stakeholders of a certain test topic.
4 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

Google Cloud Service Mesh Support request

GKE provides Google Cloud Service Mesh on GKE, which is google managed version of Istio. Now Instana already supports Istio and OpenShift Service Mesh, but not Google Cloud Service Mesh yet. We used this Google Cloud Service Mesh on GKE and reques...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

More robust scheduling options for workflows

Please look into expanding the scheduling options for automation workflows and parking workflows. I think this would be extremely beneficial. Right now, I have a use case where we have certain servers that stay off until they are needed, such as c...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration

Enable "Databases" as a service under the rightsizing section of OCI. Right now, there is only one kind of service i.e., VM

Enable "Databases" as another service under the rightsizing section of OCI. This will enable us to track cost & other existing rightsizing related KPIs & opportunities for Databases service as well.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Enable "Volumes (Disks)" as a service under the rightsizing section of OCI. Right now, there is only one kind of service i.e., VM

Enable "Volumes (Disks)" as another service under the rightsizing section of OCI. This will enable us to track cost & other existing rightsizing related KPIs for "Volumes (Disks)" service as well.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration