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Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters, Replication and realted metrics

An AlwaysOn Clusters view can help us to detect data synchronization issues, understand the behavior of availability groups, availability group state, node states, replication state, and identify cluster bottlenecks in SQL Server availability grou...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

1yr performance graphs

Expand time range for the largest selectable timespan to one year in the user interface. This allows customer's operations team to see long term performance and capacity trends. The yearly graph should have 365 daily datapoints which will speed th...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Instana to support calls to ODBC driver from GO code

In our shop we have Db2 on z/OS, and we have many direct access to Db2z from distributed world via DDF from ODBC driver (not JDBC), which is called from an application written in GO. We need Instana to support this path as currently it does not su...
5 months ago in Instana / Go 1 Under review

Hover over function (like in Cacti Weathermaps) – Hover over a Router for example, you can see Vital data (bldg. code, name, etc.)

Hover over function (like in Cacti Weathermaps) – Hover over a Router for example, you can see Vital data (bldg. code, name, etc.)
10 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Ability to see available and utiltized TPU cores and memory in container insights

Customers would like to see the available and utilized TPU cores and memory in container insights. They can see Idle in costs but not in utilization.
10 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Ability to see available and utiltized GPU cores in container insights

Customers would like to see the available and utilized GPU cores in container insights. They can see Idle in costs but not in utilization.
10 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Rightsizing support for MSK clusters

Rightsizing support for MSKAWS MSK: https://aws.amazon.com/msk/ GCP MSK: https://cloud.google.com/managed-service-for-apache-kafka/docs/overview
10 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Container recommendations should include recommendations where limits = request for all resources and one where they are not identical.

Customers would like to see recommendations where they can guarantee that the workload will have the resources as well as ones where the ability is variable (limit does not equal requested). Different workloads have different needs. It would be he...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Updated UI when importing Budgets with values that don't load.

Customers want to allow for future planned expenses in their budgets. Sometimes these future plans are not reflected in the current values available in the costing dimensions in Plans. Customer would like to be able to add "dummy" or future planne...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Add GCP "Usage Amount in pricing unit"

When lookiing at the cost and usage data to validate pricing and any applicable discounts, it is useful to have the quanity used in the pricing calcution. If pricing is done in bytes, it should not be converted to GBs for example. When Cldy separa...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted