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Effective scope identification for Azure Compute RIs in Commitment Portfolio

Currently, it's not possible to see in Reservation Portfolio what is the scope for a paricular Azure Compute reservation (Subscription or Resource Group). CLDY shows where a reservation has been purchased at the subscription/account level. It woul...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Application Perspective creation improvements

When creating/updating an AP following improvements are suggested: - A "notes" field writing in for which purpose this AP was created- A "tag" field in which tags can be entered manually which can be used in the AP overview to group by.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Metrics for Websites not stored for more than 7 days (historic data / representative sample)

Problem:------This is the case on the default Website Dashboard as well as for the Custom Instana Dashboards.When checking this in detail, we recognized no separate metrics and that the data is completely based on website (trace) data.Is this a bu...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Sorting by top n results broken down by month or day, should show top n results for each time period

Currently in Apptio BI, if you create a report with a single dimension and single cost metrics, you can sort the data by top results based on the metrics or dimension values. Once you select the "View by" field to any other than "none", you loose ...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Support monitoring for onPrem OpenSearch clusters

It would help us a lot if Instana would support the monitoring of an OpenSearch cluster even if not the AWS service is used. Currently we're replacing some onPrem ElasticSearch Clusters with OpenSearch Clusters (also onPrem). ElasticSearch is supp...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Gov Account Name

It would be helpful to have the Account Name for gov accounts populated with the AWS account name the same way the Commercial account is. Currently the Account Name field contains the account number for gov accounts. Most people do not remember th...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure Files Reserved Capacity

A reservation covers storage capacity for Azure Files. Reservations for hot and cool tiers don't cover bandwidth or transaction rates. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and ask where the a...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to 'View in Analyze' from widgets in custom dashboards.

When you create custom dashboard, there is no way to 'View in Analyze' when you identify a problem without leaving the dashboard completely. In a custom dashboard, your only options are to 'Zoom to time range' and 'Highlight on all charts'. I have...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Allow scheduled BI dashboard reports to be delivered in Excel (XLSX) or CSV format, in addition to PDF.

Currently, Cloudability only supports scheduled BI dashboard report delivery via email in PDF format. For reporting flexibility, we would like the ability to receive scheduled dashboard exports in CSV or Excel format. This would enable better data...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Ability to do conditional formatting

Ability to do conditional formatting
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration