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incident page does show assigned runbooks but it is not easy to access the runbook execution results

The incident page does show assigned runbooks and you can easily start such a runbook by clicking the offered "Run" button. But if the runbook has already been executed (especially when triggered automatically) there is not easy to access to the r...
10 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Update to use amortised metric especially for Azure

With Azure spend if you are using Reservations or Savings plans the spend will only show up in the Cost amortised extracts otherwise under the cost actuals/total it shows zero spend. Therefore the anomaly tracking within Cloudability isn't correct...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Please consider supporting non-us formats e.g. setting for deu-DEU formatting for metric display

Please consider supporting non-us formats e.g. setting for deu-DEU formatting for metrics such as Dropwizard metrics
10 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Needs more information

Add some sample workflows and documentation for Expect SSH Integration into the Automation Library

At this time, there is no good documentation or samples for the ExpectSSH integration. While it could be argued that it's not needed, it's very difficult for a user to know how to design a workflow that uses the ExpectSSH array format. Know that t...
19 days ago in Concert Workflows 0 Submitted

Making "Your Month so Far" report more realistic in Current Month tab (Budget & Forecasting)

At the beginning of each month, the Estimated Monthly Cost and the % difference compared to last month often show unrealistically positive downward trend. However, as the days progress, the trend usually shifts and the numbers get worse. This earl...
19 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Improve Instana SaaS Account & Billing features by Billing Simulation

The feature of Billing Simulation and Forecast Event Notification in Dynatrace is needed at Instana. - Billing Simulation is displayed until the contract end date, showing three values: upper bound, lower bound, and average. - If an event occurs t...
3 months ago in Instana / Observability of AI 1 Submitted

Instana to support calls to ODBC driver from GO code

In our shop we have Db2 on z/OS, and we have many direct access to Db2z from distributed world via DDF from ODBC driver (not JDBC), which is called from an application written in GO. We need Instana to support this path as currently it does not su...
5 months ago in Instana / Go 1 Under review

Addition of Wi-Fi Client Device Metrics Collection

•Support Wi-Fi client devices data / session data within SevOne for Reporting (individual Wi-Fi session data for Wi-Fi client devices) •Airwave is running in single appliance. StarHub expects proposed solution to be comparable in sizing. (data arc...
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Not under consideration

Create count function

Have a metric function in order to pull count. Currently we can only gather information from metrics such as cost, usage, and sustainability. From count function, we would want to identify the number of accounts.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Extend Commitment Portfolio Support to Business Mapping–Based Views

Today, Commitment Portfolio in Cloudability only supports views based on account and vendor tag dimensions. This creates a limitation for customers like NTT, who want to manage commitments in alignment with their Azure enrollment (payer accounts)....
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration