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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Official Terraform Provider / IaC

Need to have an official Terraform provider that is managed by Cloudability and takes into account all the latest features.
8 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review

Create a DL option for Anomaly Detection Alerts

As FinOps Analysts, we are receiving anomaly alerts that need to be forwarded to FinOps champions in each business unit. We aim to automate the distribution of these alerts to various stakeholders. Therefore, anomaly alerts should be filtered by b...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection / Other 1 Under review

Want to be able to execute Automations from a specific Agent

Within the Action Catalog for executing automations, the target server can be selected if the Automation is run manually by a person. The person sees a list of available Agents and selects one. But, when executing the Actions in an automated way v...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Under review

Enable Internet Service Monitoring protocols in Instana

We must be able to monitor more protocols with less effort like an ISM Agent: DNS resolution, DHCP, FTP, LDAP, NTP, TCP PORT, SNMP simple, Synthetic Check sensor supports HTTP and ICMP ping. We can ensure a seamless migration of customers from ITM...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Exclude Rightsizing Recommendations if current workload is on latest generation

Currently rightsizing recommendations are providing recs that contain older generation (but are "current generation") than the current instance. For example, current instance is running on r7g but rightsizing is recommending r6g.
5 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Rightsizing for ECS workloads

Rightsizing support for ECS.
5 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Under review

Include Cost (Amortized) in Anomaly Detection

Currently, as Anomaly is based on Cost (Actual). This has limitations incase of a customer using reservations. In such cases Cost (Actual) is able to work only on "On-Demand Cost" which is only pricing model being captured by Cost (Actual) - and w...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Provide an Rest API to add, delete and enrich devices, interface and IP objects.

In our practice we have the need to Add (discover) new devices in an adhoc manner. Additionally, we also need to remove devices that are in the process of upgrades or RMA actions. Once devices are in ITNM we also have a need to manage meta data in...
12 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Under review

Add support for Oracle Enterprise Service Bus

Support for extracting metrics, logs, and traces from an Oracle Enterprise Service Bus.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Enable the well-known Tilemap chart, Polystat chart, or Honeycomb Tilemap chart in the custom dashboards

It eliminates the need to integrate other tools with this plugin. Additionally, users always ask us for this chart.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review