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Commitment Support for AWS Dynamo DB Reserved Instances

Standard commitment support for this commitment type.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Obtain metrics for paging errors BD/NBD and PERM - TEMP addresses on the IBM i system

Clients have frequently inquired about the ability of Instana to provide additional metrics for IBM i environments. As we know, the current monitoring capabilities include key metrics related to jobs, subsystems, CPU and ASP capacity, history logs...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Requesting to add "Day of week" to business mapping for rightsizing tables.

Working on creating a COIN Dashboard for each provider AWS, Azure and GCP. In order to calculate Non production and Production costs by weekday and weekend, we need to evaluate the daily cost from the rightsizing data to categorize accordingly.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Instana support local monitoring For IBM DataPower Physical Appliance

Currently, Instana’s support for DataPower is limited to remote monitoring options for the DataPower Physical Appliance. However, our client is requesting local monitoring capabilities on the appliance itself. Since DataPower operates as a black b...
6 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Instana Should be Able to Check Server Time Drift

Instana does not have the capacity to check a Server time against a specified its time server . If a sever drift too much or does not apply its time change it cause business impact
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 4 Future consideration

Sync configuration between two Instana Backend instances

There is no tool available to download/upload the Standard Edition backend configuration - neither stanctl command nor UI option. Lack of such capability brings significant additional burden for operation teams running Instana self-hosted deployme...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

View/Edit anomaly detection - alert notifications centrally

Currently, the Cloudability console does not provide visibility into who has configured Anomaly Alerts Notifications. As the FinOps team, gaining insight into which users have enabled these alerts—along with the associated thresholds and the views...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Add support for Oracle Enterprise Service Bus

Support for extracting metrics, logs, and traces from an Oracle Enterprise Service Bus.
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Git proxy functionality on backend for agents in DMZs

Hi, When we install agents in production they are not allowed to connect to the internal Github to receive their configuration. Gitops is only possible if the requests could be routed through the backend. Any change in production also needs a long...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Add Effective Costs and Savings from Rightsizing to Apptio BI

Hi Team, Would you please consider to add Effective Costs and Savings from Rightsizing to Apptio BI? Right now, only on-demand is being displayed, as these costs are usually higher, they create wrong expectations within the organization. Thanks fo...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration