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Ignore today's date when running comparison reports

When running cost comparison reports, today's date is included in the analysis. For example, if I select "This month" and compare it against "Last month-to-date", it's never an equal comparison as "This month" includes the day that you are running...

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
10 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

Right Sizing Recommendation Include Sustainability Savings Data

When viewing right sizing recommendations I need to see the sustainability benefit of making the change as well as the cost benefit. I am working with Green Pixie who I would like to integrate their data sources with Cloudability so I can view the...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Not under consideration

Automatic CVE Resolution via CPE in SBOMs

Why is it useful? SBOMs often include CPEs, which are globally recognized identifiers for software components. Leveraging these identifiers enables IBM Concert to automatically discover associated CVEs using public databases, delivering immediate ...
3 months ago in Concert 0 Under review

Option to add External labor data which is not editable by planners

In current scenario, planners are able to edit Labor data. We just want users to be able to view the labor data but not edit it. Is it possible to have "external" lines in Labor tab (similar to external lines in Asset and Financial tabs)? Currentl...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Integration of Alibaba with Cloudability

Omnicom Team would like to integrate their Alibaba cloud with Cloudability to have a better visibility of their cloud spend which spans across various Hyperscalers including Alibaba.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 3 Future consideration

Widget Creation screen filters need to be visible or editable to end users post creation of said widget

When adding a widget to a dashboard, users have the ability to select projects and teams. If they select anything besides "any portfolio" or "any team", this filter sticks to this widget forever and cannot be viewed or edited. This causes problems...
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Future consideration

Enabling capturing synthetic calls

We noticed (with the support of a support ticket) that the option in "Configure Synthetic Endpoints" > "Auto-Detected Health/Ping Checks" needs to be enabled in order that calls from synthetic monitors are marked as synthetic. It would be usefu...
7 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Distinguish synthetic calls

In the Analytics > Calls screen it's not possible to make a distinction between synthetic calls ("GET /actuator/health" for example) and synthetic calls that are coming from the Instana synthetic monitors. It would be great to have a filter pos...
7 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration