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Ability to share a report with a 'Microsoft Entra ID' group.

It will be usefull if we are able to share a report to a group of people based on 'Microsoft Entra ID' group. As a large company, we have systems that group people into groups and keep those groups up to date. Which is not the case at individuals ...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Custom header support Required for Oracle IAM OIDC integration - during the OIDC token exchange phase, the Oracle IAM server requires an additional custom header (see TS020460410), not possible in DI or NMS?

Enhance or future-proof sign-on compatibility.
7 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Method to completely disable the k8sensor deployment when using the instana-agent-operator

Customer would like to a way to disable the k8sensor within the kubernetes agent to manage data ingestion costs. The instana-agent-operator ignores the k8s_sensor.deployment.enabled: false configuration. This k8sensor activity counts towards data ...
7 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Cloudability MongoDB connector should support cluster tags

Customer wants to use the cluster tags and they want to use in cloudability.
8 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Ability to mass submit Job Streams from an archived plan or forecast

From the Dynamic Workload Console, we would like the ability to select multiple Job Streams from an archived plan or forecast and resubmit them into the current plan, while maintaining dependencies, as if they were scheduled into the current plan....
13 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Create Jira ticket from Commitment Recommendations

Please allow from Commitment Recommendations to create jira tickets to be assigned to product teams for evaluation.
19 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Add hours to SLO Objective lenght

We have a KPI that monitors the login failures and we need to define a SLO between 8 AM and 10PM, but with the current length options we cant do that. If its possible we would like to have the option to select specific dates that reoccur every day...
3 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release

Support namespace label or annotation matching for shared costs

Within the Containers (Container Insights 2.0), I would like to be able to use a namespace label or annotation it outline shared costs. The current limit of 50 characters does not scale within a production grade environment and unfortinatley curre...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 3

Add Usage Family/Usage type to Resource Inventory

We request adding a field of Usage Family or Usage type to each line in the resource inventory in order to be able to separate any storage cost for example from actual instance usage. This can help especially when constructing reports via API call...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Planned for future release