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Adjustable lookback period for rightsizing recommendations is required.

Currently only 2 options for lookback period are available: 1. 10 day 2. 30 day I want lookback period to be adjustable up to 90 days, as 90 days sufficiently account for the seasonality in workload utilisation.
15 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Synthetic PoP support for ARM architecture

Please consider to add official ARM64 compatible images for all Instana self hosted Synthetic PoP components. ARM architecture proves to be ever more popular and this feature would enable teams to fully migrate to this new ecosystem. PS: Please co...
29 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Future consideration

Extend LDAP sensor capability to monitor IBM Security Directory Server 6.4

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Directory Server 6.4
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 5 Future consideration

Provide Right Sizing Preferences for Databases and/or split by base organisation.

As an Administrator of our Cloudability environment I would like to be able to configure some base preferences for the RightSizing algorithm for use in the Database section (particularly AWS RDS, and certain DBEngines like PostgreSQL and Oracle). ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Overcome limitation on monitoring Kafka endpoints

Due to the fact that JVM stack traces are increasing the size of the data sent to back end, and raising our budget, we are configuring some Kafka topics to not being monitored. The problem is that there is a limitation on the number of topics to b...
23 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0

Reducing data load by optimazing JVM StackTrace storage

Data load is ending into high costs for Instana customers, and probably for Instana itself. Analyzing the root cause of these big ammounts of data sent to the backend, we have realized that JVM's stack-traces are big chunks of data, which are main...
23 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Provide option to suppress “Unavailable billing data” pop up after it has been viewed

When a user navigates into Scale -> Virtual Machines of the Action Center, a yellow pop up appears that says "Unavailable Billing Data". It is a fairly large pop up in the upper right that almost completely blocks the "On-demand" and "Effective...

Change the CIT Scanner installation path of the Agent on Windows machines

My customer has correctly installed an Agent 9.5.0.7 on a Windows 2016/2019 machine. After receiving error notifications for unavailable resource, they realized that the Scanner installed for the Agent had been deleted. Deepening the problem they ...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Extend Commitment Portfolio Support to Business Mapping–Based Views

Today, Commitment Portfolio in Cloudability only supports views based on account and vendor tag dimensions. This creates a limitation for customers like NTT, who want to manage commitments in alignment with their Azure enrollment (payer accounts)....
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration