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Add Alert Channels as scope option in Maintenance Windows

Context: Instana's Maintenance Windows feature offers, at the moment, either Application Perspective, Selected Entities (Dynamic Focus) or Synthetic Tests as scopes in order to generate silence windows. Problem: Maintenance Windows is the only fea...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Need a way to detect that the input rate on a queue is exceeding the output rate

The customer has applications where the consuming application components occasionally have problems. They don't consume the messages off the queue fast enough. If this happens for a very short period of time, it is not a problem. But, when it occu...
6 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Improve security around "Share Page" views through Tauboard to not have security vulnerabilities

We had to turn off the "Share view" functionality because it would allow our users to share proprietary views outside of our company to anyone with an internet connection. We liked the ease of use and functionality of being able to share any infor...
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Future consideration

Cloudability/Optimize/Commitment Portfolio - add Payer Id, and Account Id/Name

As a member of a central FinOps team, covering multiple AWS and Azure payer accounts, we would like to be able to filter the Commitment Portfolio by Payer Id and/or the 'hosting' Vendor Account Name / Id that has the purchased items. Currently the...

Instana Smart Alerts Time Thresholds

Current Smart Alert Evaluation granularity scale is between 1 - 30 minutes.We would need alerts much sooner, 10 seconds would be ideal. Can this scale minimum be changed to less than 1 minute?
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Instana to monitor IBM DataPower Gateway Physical appliance to do end-to-end observability solution for IBM API solution.

My Clients in Thailand have applications expose service to consumers by API and using IBM solution that inclide [1] IBM DataPower Gateway  Physical appliance [2] APIConnect on CP4I . They plan to use Instana to do end-to-end observability but now...
over 1 year ago in Instana / DataPower 1 Not under consideration

AWS EMR Cluster Support and handling

Turbo does not inherently recognize this particular type of device (EMR Cluster) as a “special handling” instance; in effect it sees a list of instances that can be optimized. Without scaling these devices concurrently/consistently, the cluster wi...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 2 Not under consideration

Creating views on the fly

As a FinOps, I would like to be able to dynamically create a new view for each existing statement in my Business mapping. It's currently quite painful to have to create views manually. Creating a view every time the BM statement is = "True" would ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 4 Future consideration

Feature to filter HTTP calls

Customer needs a way to disable some HTTP calls to be detected, for example filter the calls that contains a specific string in the path
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0

Ability to change order of cost sharing rules

customers can't change the cost sharing rules order when they need to change it from UI.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Future consideration