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More flexibility with widget placement and shapes and sizing in dashboards to decrease excess of gray space visible to the dasboard.

I am currently working on customizing the layout of my Cloudability dashboard and am attempting to resize several widgets to eliminate the excess gray space visible on my dashboard. However, I’ve noticed that the widgets tend to snap into predefin...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

I would like to choose the alignments of the column headings and the column data in widgets within Cloudability.

I am working on a widget I created in my dashboard on Cloudability. The widget I created is a table and it has different columns on there and I would like to choose the alignments of the column headings and the column data. It would look neater if...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Windows operating system support (ARM architecture)

Support the installation of agent in Windows (ARM) for collection of the operating system metrics and identification of the technologies running on the host.
8 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Apply a filter on "Estimate" widget

As a Finops I would like to be able to apply a filter to my widget, to exclude taxes for example. It would be relevant because a lot of companies doesn't have to pay taxes and doesn't want to track them.
8 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

API enhancement | json support

the API is helpful for situations where using the console isn't possible or ideal (automation, programmatic access, etc.). ibm support said that json as an output is not supported. json as a format is foundational to programmatic operations and AP...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Detecting/Alerting on poisoned queues for IBM MQ

One of our top 4 banking customers in Australia had a Sev 1 incident last week, where their Internet Banking was down for 1 hour due to a poisoned queue. This was not detected by any monitoring tool and took some time to get to the root cause and ...
9 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Upload Business Mappings via CSV

For many financial teams creating business mappings in the UI is cumbersome and they lack the skills to be able to create JSON. Its been requested that we should provide the ability to upload Business Mapping statements via CSV to Cloudability.
15 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Submitted

Ability to filter container labels with not equals, contains, does not contain

Since containers are not available in reports, customers want to be able filter their container data based on mulitple criteria similar to what they could do in reporting (contains, does not equal, does not contain).
15 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Submitted

Ability to limit the relations tab for search & create

The relations tab feels confusing for some users. they press + to create a relation instead of searching the environment & some customers don't want to use this functionality in here but only from an integration standpoint. the request is as f...
15 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Future consideration

Integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs

Currently, Instana's Otel Collector does not support integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs out of the box, which means that its integration with AWS service logs and event functions is inferior to that of its competitors.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 4 Submitted