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Enable the well-known Tilemap chart, Polystat chart, or Honeycomb Tilemap chart in the custom dashboards

It eliminates the need to integrate other tools with this plugin. Additionally, users always ask us for this chart.
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Monitor Processes that are in zombie State

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-os-process#process-abnormal-termination Instana does Monitor Process Abnormal Termination, but does not seams to monitor processes that are in zombie sta...
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Monitoring file or directory - Recursive, Counting only files

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-file Currently the probe counts the number of files in a specified folder . If there is a folder within the said folder , its being counted as a file The...
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration

Add an API endpoint that returns CLOUDABILITY_API_KEY for a given cluster ID

We use Cloudability to monitor our kubernetes clusters, however the deployment manifests returned by calling this API endpoint - https://api.cloudability.com/v3/containers/provisioning/ {cluster_id} /config (where {cluster_id} is the ID of a kuber...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Under review

Allow scheduled BI dashboard reports to be delivered in Excel (XLSX) or CSV format, in addition to PDF.

Currently, Cloudability only supports scheduled BI dashboard report delivery via email in PDF format. For reporting flexibility, we would like the ability to receive scheduled dashboard exports in CSV or Excel format. This would enable better data...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Provide Cloud Financial Planning daily data for current month

The CFP feature allows for reporting and variance analysis on the current month at a daily granularity. I believe that the CFP data source in Apptio BI currently only contains monthly granularity for all months. This means you can't report on say,...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

Cloudability Access Logs / Report views by user

Much like how Apptio Costing has a usage project within an environment, The customer would like something similar for Cloudability / BI. Customer would like the ability to see which users are viewing which reports and at what rate (ex: John Doe vi...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Reports, Dashboards / User Management & Login 1 Future consideration

Enhance EUM to include Session Replay

We have application teams who are using Dynatrace's Session Replay feature. To move to Instana they are requiring this feature.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1

Effective cost basis in Rightsizing explorer

We would like to be able to switch between on-demand and effective cost basis in the Rightsizing Explorer pane. This is possible as part of the various rightsizing panel (e.g. AWS EC2, EC2 ASG, RDS) but not in the consolidated explorer view. This ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Intergration oracle hypervisor (KVM)

to be able to monitor KVM workloads similar to VM ware hyper V
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release