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Add Purchasing Account Name in Tables on Commitment Portfolio for RIs

It would be helpful to on the Commitment Portfolio page, when selecting AWS RIs, to show the purchasing account. When selecting Savings Plans, you do get the account name included. This would help the central FinOps team be able to quickly analyze...

Ability to create alerts using K8s event

Instana offers the ability to create alerts and smart alerts from events, but the creation of alerts from Kubernetes events is not currently supported. The goal is to have this feature available so customers can set up alerts to track specific eve...
7 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

Make the Extendible Domain editor accessible to Partners

Within our current experience using TargetProcess, at a lot of customers the capabilities of TargetProcess are extended with existing solutions to create new entities & relations according to the customer's needs. However, most of the time, th...
28 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Please include Custom date range in the custom metric timeline

Currently the custom metric in apptioBI has only standard timelines like : "this week", "last week", etc.. and the only option of customization is inherit date from visualization, but when we use multiple custom metrics in the report for different...
about 8 hours ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Cost Management Support for Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO)

Context: Cloudability currently provides dedicated cost visibility and allocation capabilities for Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA). This includes workload-level attribution across clusters, namespaces, deployments, and labels, enabling cus...
about 8 hours ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Automatic event creation for process alerts

We are looking for a solution to employ a predefined list of Processes on the agent config and would need an event for "process down" created if the Instana server detects that process metrics came in from a host at any point and maintain that sta...
about 9 hours ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Integration into CMDB

ideally, Instana should have an integration with CMDB where information about these technologies and hosts are maintained. It will be efficient if Instana can read the CMDB so we can scope internal classifications for monitoring or alerting (Dynam...
about 9 hours ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

V3 API does not follow standards

Currently the API v3 delete API call requires a body. DELETE requests are typically designed to identify the resource to be deleted solely through query parameters within the URI It looks like your API deviates from the standard and requires a req...
about 11 hours ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Needs more information

Provide minimal Helm charts for Instana Enterprise Operator and Instana Backend

Summary Our CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins) and artifact-mirroring process are Helm-centric. Today, Instana Enterprise/Backend requires copying individual images and using kubectl instana to render/apply manifests. We request official minimal Helm charts...
about 12 hours ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Include more Cloud Services for Sustainability Reporting

Hi, currently, IBM Turbonomic provides sustainability reporting based on virtual machines (VMs). However, since the customer utilizes a wide range of cloud services across different cloud platform, it would be beneficial to extend the Sustainabili...
about 14 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Sustainability 0 Submitted