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Add Status Indicator in CLDY UI to confirm that cost data for previous days is fully uploaded/processed

It would be useful to have an indicator in CLDY UI which confirms the status of billing data uploading/processing. Currently users have to create reports (e.g. KPI or trend graph) to compare costs on a daily basis by Vendor (e.g. yesterday cost vs...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Need to see whether an IBM MQ trace is a Put or a Get

The customer is monitoring an application where the first transaction that is monitored is a PUT onto a Queue within IBM MQ. The customer is using the Instana User Exit and it is set to DEBUG mode to force the Exit to trace all transactions. Curre...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Support multiple organizations in GCP during credentialling

In GCP a construct called organizations exists. These are similar to Azure tenants whereby a domain name is wrapped around a set of projects. We need to be able to support multiple organizations during the credentialling process in Cloudability. A...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Third party integration with Icinga

Hi Instana team, I have a couple customers, principally FOD Financien Belgium, that use another German monitoring product called Icinga as their network/infrastructure monitoring tool, it would be highly useful to have the same integration capabil...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

Flow widget to display total traffic with different visualizations

At the moment when using flow widget we can display total traffic with table visualization. If we change to for example line chart or bar chart we no longer have total traffic, only "remaining traffic". If you would like to have line chart of flow...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 8 Future consideration

Add support for Azure Microsoft Dynamics 365 to Instana

Add observability capability to Dynamics 365 to extend visibility into workloads running on that Azure service. That would enable an end-to-end traces accessing that service. That capability would be useful for all customers that are using Dynamic...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Automated report from instana dashboards

We are trying to send an automated report from instana custom dashboard via email, but we don't see any options available in UI also don't see anything in the instana documentation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability Please help wit...
over 1 year ago in Instana / SRE / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Add Aruba Access Point Metadata upon Device Discover

Upon discovering Aruba Controller devices in NMS via the Wifi plugin, Aruba Access Point (AP) devices are also added to the cluster. However, some useful metadata is missing which does get included from other manufacturer APs. This is affecting th...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Multi-Entity Reporting and Filtering Capability

Currently, there is an inability to create in-platform reports within TargetProcess that have more than 1 entity in its source data, as entity specific filtering in the report data fields is not allowed. The ability to create reports that utilize ...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Future consideration

Dynamically identify root volumes

Dynamically identify root volumes in order for us to exclude root volumes from policies This will allow us to filter out root volumes from some volume scaling actions. We want to be able to use the filter option in the group creation wizard to sco...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration