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Container Cost Allocation Filters for Kubernetes Labels need to support all operators to help teams get insights on K8S clusters that have labels with similar or dissimilar values (Contains, Not Equals, Does Not Contain)

We have teams use Kubernetes labels that follow patterns to help them group similar clusters together (for example: MFG-A1, MFG-A2, ...). The current Filter for Labels on Container Cost Allocation only support the "equals" operator which causes a ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Container Cost Allocation Based on Labels Instead of Namespaces

The customer has over 40 Kubernetes clusters with numerous shared resources within a single namespace across different cost centers. They would like the Kubernetes cost allocation feature to support allocation of resources based on labels, rather ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Instana SaaS must support Dual(Multiple) SSO in the same tenant as Dynatrace is supporting now.

My customer is using Dynatrace that supports Dual SSO, so they are using SAML via Okta for SSO of regular employees and Azure SaaS AD for SSO of partner employees both are having different email domains.However, I got answered from IBM Support tha...
5 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Not under consideration

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

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

Format improvement on PDF export of custom dashboard widget

Hi team, please consider including more information within the axes when a custom dashboard is exported. This is a key missing part in order to understand the graphs being exported, and right now we cannot see any values displayed, which makes it ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Ability to share dashboards easily with a large group (150+) instead of selecting each individually.

Ability to share dashboards easily with a large group (150+) instead of selecting each individually.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Planned for future release

Apptio Costing:::Content for cost model of modern containerized microservices and API-first architecture

The technologies deployed by companies today are no longer well represented and modeled through a lens of Physical to Virtual machines viewed on a monthly basis, with a VM hosting a single application. While this is the traditional Apptio Cost mod...
21 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Create a custom Field in the Incident Details Overview to save the ITSDM Ticket Number

We have a customer that uses the generic WebHook to integrate with an ITSDM (CA Service Now). Today we don't have any rastreability at Instana, when a ticket is create in the ITSDM. Our first request would be to create a custom field at Incident D...
3 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

support Scala 3.x and ZIO

this feature request based on debug case number TS018964881. right now instana agent does not support Scala 3.x and ZIO. can you support in next release.
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 5 Future consideration