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Create a new standard role for Credentials only

In some cases, for MSPs, the customer has not yet moved to a CSP/MSP agreement within the hyperscalers. In those cases, the customers own their credentials and environment in the hyperscaler. If the customer is planning to move to a CSP/MSP agreem...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Submitted

Add Flexera Technopedia integration

Required by Dec 2025 for Visa POC.
2 days ago in Concert Workflows 0 Submitted

Ability to Use Multiple “Device Metadata” Variable in a Report

While exploring Data Insight, we found only a single “Device Metadata” variable value could be used as a filter for each report. The ask is to allow multiple “Device Metadata” to be used in given report.
2 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Submitted

ServiceNow integration for Rightsizing ROI

While Apptio Cloudability has now removed the Admin role from CldyUser_Script user role for Servicenow integration with rightsizing ROI , Farmer’s has identified a concern with the current integration approach, which involves direct access to data...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Enhanced Hover Interaction for "Roles and Permissions" and "Custom Fields" sections

Currently, in the Roles and Permissions and Custom Fields sections, the Edit and Delete icons are positioned on the far right of each field, making them difficult to click accurately especially when field names are short. This often results in use...
3 days ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Submitted

Monitor WebSphere Application Server Thread Usage Percentage with Alerting and Exclusion Support

To further enhance operational visibility, we request an enhancement to monitor thread usage in WAS as a percentage metric with alerting capabilities. Specifically, we propose the following features: Monitor the number of free threads in each WebS...
3 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Version field for Instances in Cloudability

Multiple tenants requested the OS Version field of the Instances as they will use the below combination of dimensions and metrics to create custom KPI's for reporting. This was already used with our previous tool and the lack of the OS Version inf...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Submitted

Request to Remove the 400-Topic Limit for Kafka Metrics Collection in Instana Agent

Currently, Instana Agent imposes a limit of 400 topics for Kafka metrics collection. We would like to kindly request that this restriction be relaxed or removed. In the system we are currently building, the number of topics is expected to reach ap...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Submitted

Support for ElasticSearch v8.18 and higher

Currently, Instana Sensor supports until v8.17.1 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.299?topic=technologies-monitoring-elasticsearch#configuration. ElasticSearch has already moved to v9.x and Instana support for ElasticSearch has...
22 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Missing traces for pods that run for about 5-10 minutes

The issue is caused because the instrumentation is not completed by the time the job completes its execution, which results in missing of trace data. We need the agent to be started - and running - before the application so we can instrument all t...
7 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted