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Provide new metadata summary widget that displays number of unique values by type for a metadata attribute (e.g. number of ports that are down, up, disabled)

Operationally and for Management reports, it is useful to be able to summarize items of interest, such as the number of ports that are up, down, disabled, etc. Or summarize number of devices by type, operating system, etc.
8 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Commitment Recs are not compatible with tag based views

Currently when trying to view commitment recommendations for Azure and also using business mapping based views results in a message saying that tag based views are not supported for commitment recommendations. See attached screenshot. We would lik...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Future consideration

Table widgets don't allow Application (Traces and Calls) and Logs as Data Source

Table widgets don't allow to add Application (Traces and Calls) or Logs as Data Source. There are several dashboard requirement where table structure for display data. Should also support heatmaps for data.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 8 Future consideration

When "Allow Flow View Selection" option is selected for a flow widget, also add the "graph remaining traffic" slider button to the widget.

This would benefit consumers of read only reports who may need to be able to toggle the remaining traffic in a flow widget on or off, but can't edit the widget directly to do so.
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Cloudability Integration with Dynatrace to provide memory metrics

Hi Team, Integrating Cloudability with Dynatrace will help in providing memory metrics to the cldy, which will provide more accurate results on the rightsizing recommendations.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Future consideration

Add the Ability to Create Alerts on Usage

Customer is using CRIO They are asking for the ability to create alerts on the following: Namespace: stg-cp4i-ace Pods: contains stg1* 1. CPU: 95% usage of cpu requests 2. Memory: 95% usage of the requests Checked with @Jayanth Putta and confirmed...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

Pareto chart - Cost Transparency

The Pareto chart is one of the most popular charts, as it allows users to quickly grasp the rate of the top X at a glance. This will enable TMBO to leverage Apptio for C-level reporting.
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Future consideration

Lifecycle management for unattached disks

Introduce a lifecycle management process for unattached disks to optimize storage efficiency. This includes: Automated Tiering: Move unattached disks from hot to cold tier based on usage and detached status (detached >= 45 days) Analytics/Reass...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

On IBM AIX, Instana should not count filecache (completely) as "used_memory"

AIX by default uses available memory as filecache (between limits set by parameters minperm% and maxperm%), usually up to 90% of the total memory size. When the applications use only a small portion of available memory, the remainder (or large par...
11 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Disable/Delete Flow Interface not seen for X Months

Flow interfaces never get disabled or deleted once they are allowed for collection. Over time, interfaces move or are disabled thereby leaving these flow interfaces to consume licenses when nothing is being collected. There's no way to tell if a f...
27 days ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 5 Future consideration