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Increase limit for Rightsizing Policies.

In my org, we have multiple projects, as such have hit the maximum number of Rightsizing Policies CLDY allows us to create.
11 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

monitoring multiple vCenters from a single Agent

Per documentation (www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/... you can deploy the agent on the vCenter itself or any agent of choice (linux/windows) on a remote system - the vCenter sensor is able to perform remote monitoring if installation on the vCenter is not...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Allow for the customization for additional months of data refetch

Credits are often issued for charges further back than the current or previous month. Allow for the customization to refetch data back multiple months by default, preventing a manual refetch process
9 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Under review

Adding the ability to filter IBM DataPower entities by IBM MQ v9+ objects

Dynamic focus query supports only filtering by appliance, cluster, domain or service objects. It would be useful to have the option to filter IBM MQ v9+ objects using name and status (see the idea INSTANA-I-3384), e.g., entity.ibmdatapower.qmv9.na...
9 months ago in Instana / DataPower 2 Future consideration

Schedule Plan Baseline Push to ITP

Clients need to update plan baseline data like labor regularly with no manual steps. Please add the ability to map an entity to ITP and select a plan to push into so ADM knows which plan to push the baseline data into. Then add the ability to sche...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Future consideration

Ability to see Container K8s labels along with other tags and labels in Resource Inventory

When looking at the utilization of resources it is useful to know what applications are running against that infrastructure. Including the K8s labels in the data would be helpful in assessing the use of the resources.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Not under consideration

Make TPU and GPU information from GCP available in reporting

Customers would like to see the size and memory capacity of their TPUs and GPUs. Understanding cost footprint associated with TPU and GPU sizes and capabilities is important for optimization and planning for the future.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Future consideration

Fix variable in Airgapped install.

There's a possible mistake with the Installing 1.1.5 by using a private container registry (OCP) instructions: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rapid-infra-auto/1.1.x?topic=i1rhoc-installing-115-by-using-private-container-registry-ocp The part: Install...
3 months ago in Concert Workflows 0 Is a defect

Need to be able to send out reports in PDF/CSV by email

Dear Colleagues, we have a tender where customer is interested in sending regular reports from Instana to management with statuses and current numbers. We have ability to create custom dachboards and generate PDF/CSV of them, please consider addin...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Planned for future release

Ability to have a reporting dimension for Azure - TERM - to create reports for reservations based on their term (1y -3y)

Currenty it it only possible to have the reservations term visibility using the commitment portfolio. The ask is to add a new dimension TERM, which will help users to categorize reseravtions based on their term (1 year or 3 year). We have tried cr...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration