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Remove reliance on Environment Variables for tracing.

Currently tracing with .Net utilises environment variables. The limitations of this are that when we want to enable/disable autotracing we have to restart the traced application. This is incredibly disruptive to high demand production environments...
27 days ago in Instana / .NET 0 Under review

Java Configuration-based SDK need support LMAX disruptor framework

We have a major business partner(Worldline - a world wild payment solution provider) is using LMAX disruptor within their new generation payment solution(PaySuite), they would like to partner with us to leverage Instana as the primary observabilit...
28 days ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

Perform periodic internal backups of all databases

We recently suffered some corruption of the Common Services Postgres database and found out that the pods themselves do not take any sort of backups to mitigate this situation. On a support call recently it was discovered that the Zen Database doe...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Ability to pull Network/Memory allocation metrics in Reports and Dashboards/ apptio BI

With the curent capability to build container reports with Utilizations or cost or usage metrics, it is imperative to have CPU/Memory/GPU Allocation metrics available as part of Reports/Dashboards or Apptio BI reports. to provide more clarity, a s...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Under review

Support Remedy integration into the CP4AiOps so you can take full advantage of the Similar Tickets model and the ticket creation and monitoring functionalties that we see available to the ServiceNow and Jira integrations

Remedy is a widely used Ticketing product in many organizations and thus it would be very useful to be able to take advantage of the CP4AIOps Similar Tickets mode and the ticket creation and monitoring functionalities. Adds value by supporting Rem...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Unused Business Mapping, Account Groups, and Tags – Identification & Housekeeping

Currently, customers create tags, account groups, and business mappings that are applied across reports and dashboards. However, over time, some of these objects may no longer be in use—either because the business context has changed, projects hav...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Under review

Allow configuration of custom OIDC scopes in Instana SSO settings (e.g. entitlement_group)

Currently Instana’s OIDC integration only supports specifying the discovery URL. Instana always requests the default scopes (openid, profile, email). In our environment, critical authorization information (entitlement_group, authorization_group, s...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Under review

Cloudability MCP (Model Context Protocol)

We are currently building a FinOps Assistant GENAI, we have already other sources to enhance our FinOps assistant e.g AWS Billing and Cost Management official MCP, JIRA official MCP, DataDog official MCP and so on. What we are missing now is the C...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability / Other 1 Under review

Need fully functional Tag-Based Views in Cloudability, using top-level account tags only (not resource tags)

When using a top-level tag view, the customers are unable to see Insights/Containers, Committment Portfilio, Committment Recs, or Committment Manager. Whne selecting any of the listed options, and error is thrown similar to this one for Containers...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review

Make user access granting process more straightforward

The process required for gaining access to Cloudability for the first time is overly complex, not intuitive and not what one would expect from a SaaS tool from a user perspective. In order to gain fully-fledged access, including to views permittin...
8 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Under review