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Git proxy functionality on backend for agents in DMZs

Hi, When we install agents in production they are not allowed to connect to the internal Github to receive their configuration. Gitops is only possible if the requests could be routed through the backend. Any change in production also needs a long...
about 10 hours ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Event closing action in automation

Hi, Currently there is no closing action which fires when an event is closed. We need this to tell the central event management console that an issue is resolved. It will nag the resonsible team until a closing event is received.
about 10 hours ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

Dynamic Tag support for process environment variables in actions needed

Hi, We use Webhooks to trigger events in our central alerting console. The messages are then routed to the appropriate team/workflow based on tags which are delivered as environment variables with the process. Currently those environment variables...
about 10 hours ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

Ability to recover a workload estimate (if deleted) in Workload Planning. 

Hi, the ask here is to have an ability to recover a workload estimate (if deleted) in Workload Planning. Or as an alternative, to have an archive option instead of just delete. Thanks
1 day ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 0 Submitted

Add support for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets in Rightsizing

Please add support for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) rightsizing recommendations, this is a very common deployment option for virtual machines, much like ASG's in AWS. Not having rightsizing support is a big gap in what is common to be a...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Add resource id on Anomaly alerts/subscriptions

Idea : Is to add resource id on Anomaly alerts/subscription so that customer's can get an idea of the affected resources just through the subscription alert. While I do understand that link provided in the alert (redirecting to CLDY page) provided...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

Extend Cost Sharing functionality

Better Cost Sharing functionality multi-vendor. Cost Sharing in multiple Business Mappings but filtered in one view.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Overlay graph with stacked bar in base layer and column in layer 1

Currently, the overlay chart doesn’t function as expected when selecting stacked in the base layer and column in layer 1, as it displays all three metrics as separate bars. It would be valuable to have a feature that supports stacking two metrics ...
1 day ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Native DevRev Integration

The customer has requested native integration with DevRev, similar to how Cloudabilty integrates with ServiceNow and DataDog. DevRev offers a unified, AI-driven customer relationship management (CRM) platform for SaaS companies, integrating custom...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Automatic agent startup on AIX after server restart

When a server restarts, the agent does not start automatically up and observability could be lost. Although this can be done manually, there would be a margin for error.
2 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted