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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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Commitment Support for AWS Sagemaker Savings Plans Recommendations

Commitment Support for AWS Sagemaker Savings Plans Recommendations
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Support for IBM MQ on native IBM i Agent

IBM MQ sensor support on IBM I agent locally.
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Increase days for retention for traces and calls

Currently Instana allows to keep the history of calls and traces for 7 days, however, due to business requirements and policies that the entity must comply with before other areas and governmental entities, Instana is requesting to extend this ret...
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Under review

Ability to Add Account Groups to Filter Dropdown in Rightsizing

Currently the filters in Rightsizing contain some Cldy standard dimensions and then all tags and all business dimensions. It would be helpful to also include the Account Groups in the filter dropdown options.

Mass "insufficient authority" errors in a log for SYSTEM.AUTH.DATA.QUEUE

Dear Colleagues, due to security policies the customer is not able to grant access to the special queue. Hence they experience the following error in a log: Error: 2025-05-20T07:10:58.879Z AMQ8077W: Entity 'mqumon01' has insufficient authority to ...
21 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Provide ability to surface all CUR columns in Cloudability's reporting

Many of our customers have custom use cases that require more fields in the CUR than Cloudability provides. An example is the Legal Entity field. Surfacing Legal Entity would enable better visibility into the 3rd party vendor that is being purchas...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Adding sustainability metrics to rightsizing recommendations

There is strong evidence industry wide that a large percentage of engineers are more likely to take action based off carbon emission reduction recommendation than cost. ( largely as engineers may not have a budget responsibility as part of their r...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

A new view or option under "Dimensions" that allows Support to right-click and debug affected applications, services, and microservices

Support/Status/View: Displays the status of all running applications, services, and microservices in a topology view, indicated by color codes (green/yellow/red). Selecting any node or application displays the connected and affected services. Righ...
2 months ago in Concert 0 Submitted

Ability to have a longer look back period for Rightsizing Recommendations

The desire is to have the ability to select more than 30 days for the look back period for Rightsizing Recommendations. Looking for at least 90 days.

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...
4 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Under review