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Compare an application with different zone / csp in WLP

The idea would be to take a tag / business mapping and all the resources linked to that application, push them into WLP and be able to compare the actual costs with the cost from different regions / CSP to evaluate where it would be the cheapest t...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 0 Submitted

Auto Update for Cost Sharing Rules, when Namespaces are updated.

We would like to use the Cost Sharing Feature based on a Business Dimension to have an automated showback/chargeback process for shared costs in Accounts with Container setups. Therfore we use the feature to split gernal cost (which is not tied to...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Instana Integration with performance test tool

Identification requests and calls from load tests to separate from another activities in order to facilitate the analysis
7 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

The instana agent should support running on jdk version 11+

From Instana's doc, jdk 11 is required to run the instana agent. Instana agent should be able to run on jdk 11+, e.g. the latest jdk version, as cusotmers will have policy to update all of their jdk versions in their IT environment.
8 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Remove Limitation for `OR` logical operator When defining multiple metrics by pattern, only one rule is allowed to use a different matching operator from 'is'.

I believe, this functionality was by design when there is only one logical operator i.e., 'AND'. However, there was an introduction of `OR` logical operator recently between the rules/condition thresholds for metrics. It makes sense to restrict fo...
13 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Continuously sending alerts (or expiring alerts) past a defined threshold to avoid overlooking.

We have encountered a critical operational challenge: When a single alert is triggered and then overlooked or ignored, there is currently no built-in capability within Instana to continuously resend or reissue that alert past a defined threshold o...
25 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Create a new cost transparency integration for sending the event log/change history from ITP to CT

Our user activity in IT Planning is currently hard to track and the export is hard to understand without additional formatting. With an integration into Cost Transparency, it would be easier to reformat the event log/change history data in CT in c...
14 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Add subgrouping to Infrastructure View

Hi team, our customer would like to have the possibility of having more than one-level of grouping in the Infrastructure View (something like sub-zone concept), so they can manage the complexity of their infrastructure Platform and have a better v...
27 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Allow more options for Perspective and Grouping in the Infrastructure View

Hi team, we know currently we can use Zones, which are the default display in the Infrastructure View, and then we can use Host or Container Grouping based on a defined set of attributes like CPU, OS, K8S namespace, etc. We explored the Tag Prefix...
27 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Add Alias option for Hosts

Hi team, When monitoring a Host, the naming is based on the FQDN. Sometimes this name is not explanatory or easily identifiable by Instana users, especially when a customer has a big amount of hosts being monitored. It would be great to have the p...
27 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted