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Cloning of Application Perspectives

We are in the process of creating Application Perspectives based on the namespaces in the cluster. Each cluster has 100's of namespaces and each namespaces has services ranging from 5-15. We are creating application perspectives at a service level...
10 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

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...
10 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Report memory used in AWS RDS to reports and dashboards

Seeing the amount of used memory alongside CPU would help customers make an informed decision around rightsizing and other utilization / consumption metrics as to how best optimize their workloads.
10 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Privacy enhancement to the Labor Tab.

Would it be possible to lock or hide the Existing / Planned Employee subtab under Labor tab to some users? The goal is to enable more granular access control—so that user permissions could be configured to allow access to either the Existing tab, ...
6 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

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...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

See the sustainability impact of using AI/ML tools in the cloud

As a FinOps lead trying to influence my colleagues to use things responsibly, I need accurate sustainability metrics for AI/ML usage, to get my colleagues to use AI/ML with due care. The sustainability metrics are not available for the majority of...
12 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Alert when trying to edit at the same time

Display an alert when someone attempts to edit something simultaneously with you. This helps prevent overwriting and losing content. E.g. Business mappings, visualisations...
12 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

API Support for Cloudability Containers – Metrics Agent Observability

We greatly value the recently released metrics agent observability tool and believe that enabling API support would unlock even greater potential.
7 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Filter out GP2 recommendations from Right Sizing

As an Administrator of our Cloudability environment I would like to be able to configure some base Right Sizing preferences to *ignore* all recommendations for AWS GP2 storage. There doesn't appear to be any capability to do that at this time. Aff...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Apply a filter to the entire dashboard

Like the new feature that allows us to select a date range for an entire dashboard, I would like to be able to select other dimensions as a filter, rather than having to create a view each time.For example : Filter a dashboard by AWS payer ID, or ...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted