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Centralized management for all subscription, for both Total Cost and Cloudability reports.   It is very challenging today

Centralized management for all subscription, for both Total Cost and Cloudability reports. It is very challenging today
6 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Not under consideration

Expiring RI for RDS, add column for Engine type

For expiring RDS RIs, it would be very useful to have the engine added to the table that is sent via email subscription.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Need an option in Instana to save snapshots of a particular application perspective locally and compare them later with another snapshot or live one.

We need to have a option for saving a snapshots of particular application perspective in instana, save it in local. Later compare with another snapshot or the live one. Eg: We have an application perspective created as "xyz" & we have selected...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure Files Reserved Capacity

A reservation covers storage capacity for Azure Files. Reservations for hot and cool tiers don't cover bandwidth or transaction rates. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and ask where the a...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

ITP Asset Import from CT also possible for External Assets

Existing assets can currently only be imported from CT in a automated way, if these are not marked as external Assets. Use case: ITP Existing Assets should be importable to ITP from the most current asset register, also if they are marked as Exter...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

Generic Entity Types creation by native OpenTelemetry (OTEL) infrastructure data instead of Otel-Collector Entity

Instana currently supports a variety of entity types—including infrastructure entities (hosts, containers, Java processes) and trace-specific entities (services, endpoints, applications). While the Instana sensors offer powerful application monito...
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4

Apptio DataLink Adaptor for Planning Analytics (On-Prem)

Hi Team, Clients today are having to manually extract and load up data from Apptio into their Planning Analytics instance on-prem. Currently there is no intention to move to using Planning Analytics Cloud (SaaS). The client has strict data soverei...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Not under consideration

Data Insight Widget - Alert Profile (Addition to Alert Details and Alert Summary Widgets)

Most Monitoring Tools have a dedicated way to tell the end user what polices your device will trigger on. We are looking for a widget that would define all applicable policies to a device. This widget would require you to select a device variable,...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Widget Descriptions

The ability to add a short descriptor within the widget or being able to hover over a widget and see the descriptor

Subscription emails

Leverage more than one global filter on the email feature for Costing
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted