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Regarding the Usage Rate of the Oracle DB Temporary Tablespace (TEMP01)

We have received your response that the following SQL is being executed when retrieving information from the CDB. However, as a result, the usage rate of the temporary tablespace has increased. SELECT * FROM ( SELECT max(ss.inst_id) inst_id, ss.sq...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

A way to calculate cumulative cost/usage over a period of time using calculated metrics

A simple use case is to track commitments with vendor which normally is yearly based on cumulative usage, we should be able to show it in a chart with target line and cost/usage metric showing cumulative values for the time period selected
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Self-Monitoring Instana with Instana - Document Instana custom metrics

(Self-Hosted) Instana instances can be fully monitored using Instana. If you know which metrics (custom metrics in Instana) to look out for when workload or resources change. Instana should provide up-to-date documentation of internal custom metri...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Future consideration

Financial Year under 'Pick a Time Period' in Cloudability Native Dashboards & Reporting

Cenitex have requested a 'Financial Year' time filter for reporting in Cloudability Native Dashboards & reports. Attached screenshot of where it'd be applied. This small addition would be a huge productivity increase for many finance teams who...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements The requirement is to exclude the message wait monitoring based on message text similar to "messageIdsExclude" in below code. messageQueueEvent: Lib-1/queueName1: ## Provide ...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

enable future date selection in the time range filter

One of my clients is using the Cloudability dashboard and would like to select a custom time range that aligns with their fiscal year — specifically from February 2025 to February 2026. However, when attempting to select this range, the calendar d...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Support RegEx in Values field of Shared Rules

In Cloudability / Insights / Containers (Container Insights 2.0), I want to add some 'shared rules', based on Namespace names. - A regular Openshift cluster has 72 (!) namespaces starting with 'openshift-'. - As cluster admins, we install cluster ...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Future consideration

Enable MSP Control Over Sample Dashboards During User Creation

In MSP and reseller environments, MSPs often manage AWS reservations and savings plans on behalf of their customers. Currently, the EC2 reservation sample dashboard is enabled by default for all newly created users at the customer level and cannot...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Future consideration

Display QAUDJRN audit metrics in customized dashboard

This capability would be useful for our AS400 customers who needs to parse their QAUDJRN audit journal metrics to a dashboard. So far, Instana can retrieve the metrics but unable to display it properly in its dashboard. We can extract the journal ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Ability to self-monitor Instana REST API rate limits

A predefined dashboard that allows you to see the usage of Instana REST API for each API Token, to optimize the number of times or intervals of invoking the API to avoid reaching the rate limit quickly.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 5 Future consideration