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Add dimensions to Apptio BI to mirror info from Rightsizing

Add more dimensions regarding Rightsizing data source in Apptio BI. Currently we have situations where in Apptio BI reporting we have only current and recommended instance type but that is not what is being recommended to be changed: for example, ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Add Usage Family/Usage type to Resource Inventory

We request adding a field of Usage Family or Usage type to each line in the resource inventory in order to be able to separate any storage cost for example from actual instance usage. This can help especially when constructing reports via API call...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Planned for future release

Include Unusual Spend chart in the anomaly email notification

Currently, unusual spend is reported via email alert - but there is no daily spend and a visual of a cost spike available, unless one goes to Cloudability anomalies and clicks on alert detail. It will be very useful to have that anomaly chart incl...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Under review

Increase Limit on number of decimal points for fields and custom fields

Working with AMEX here. They need to have at least six digits after the decimal point for the calculations to work out properly. Ideally, we would like to have it where we can set a number of digits after the decimal point for each field. The issu...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Other 1

Time Based Monitoring

We have several Monitors which are timing based and trigger on Certain days/date and time. Currently Instana doesn’t handle these request
over 1 year ago in Instana 0 Future consideration

Improve Rightsizing Preferences

** I'm using EBS as an example, but this would apply for all the services. ** Introduce the capability to customize Amazon EBS volume recommendations in Cloudability’s rightsizing preferences, allowing users to exclude specific EBS volume types (e...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Future consideration

Extend LDAP sensor capability to monitor IBM Security Directory Server 6.4

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Directory Server 6.4
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 5 Future consideration

Gateway for Message Bus should support additional fields for Gate.XMLGateway.MessageKey property

If integrating the OMNIbus gateway for message bus with Kafka the property Gate.XMLGateway.MessageKey only supports either the field ServerSerial or ServerName.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/netcoolomnibus/8.0.0?topic=file-properties-command-line-opt...
6 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Enhance the maintenance windows to give the possibility to decide what to suppress (Alerts, Events, Automation Policies)

I've recently started to configure instana for my IBMi environment, and after setting up my automation policies, i stumbled across the maintenance window which was my logical choice to prevent those policies to run within the maintenance scope (da...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted