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Publish a list of the open source products and versions.

We need to be able to easily track what version underlying open source products are being used in the latest Instana releases (Cassandra, etc) so we can make sure we are using versions approved by our firm. Please add a page to the Instana documen...
3 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Add Databricks cluster names to Cloudability for Databricks GCP

Cloudability Databricks GCP connector is not bringing in Databricks cluster names. As result it is difficult to use Cloudability to understand which Databricks GCP cluster contributed to costs. Cloudability shows Databricks Azure cluster names. Da...

Persistent filter from Infrastructure to Analyze Infrastructure

Hi team, When we navigate on the Infrastructure section and use Filters, we expect that the Analyze Infrastructure Button that is present in the UI will work the same way as it works for Applications, where we can jump from every level (Applicatio...
3 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Analyze Infrastructure - Name Display improvement

Hi team, when we have entities with long names, they are not fully displayed in the Analyze Infrastructure View (see screenshot attached). In this case, as we identify the entities by the Suffix, we don't see it at all in the result table. We are ...
3 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Allow the NMS to purge SNMP devices either missing at the SNMP agent (packet error on polling that OID) or missing completely (no response to TCP packets)

As per title, the cluster settings call for set up parameters that take care handling operative or missing objects. However, this should also allow for the removal of any objects with a SNMP Operational or Administrative Status other than down per...
3 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Ability to assign and track investigation status of Cloudability cost anomalies in Cloudability UI

Problem:Right now in the Cloudability Cost Anomly you get a list of alerts for unusual/unexpected cost increases. The content of the alerts themselves is useful and provides the information needed to dig deeper. The challenge comes when trying to ...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Custom Dashborads - Axis and Widget legend display

Hi team, please allow the possibility to format the y-Axis, so it displays more values (not just the upper value). Regarding the Legends, in some cases they are displayed perfectly, but sometimes, when there are many metrics displayed, or few metr...
3 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Data retention configuration by size of disk-space

On Instana Standar Edition (On-Prem) the current data retention configuration is only by time (e.g. 7 days) - It would be much helpful if we can also configure by size of disk-space (e.g. 5Tb) as current feature is not very useful for customers wh...
17 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Include date fields in the Bulk Edit screen

It is possible to edit fields in bulk in TargetProcess by selecting multiple entities (shift-click) and hitting "Edit 00 items". However, date fields (like Planned Start Date) are not editable through this screen. The date fields should be editabl...
10 days ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 1 Under review

Normalize region naming conventions between datasets for Cloud Service Providers and SaaS Services, E.g. AWS & Databricks on AWS.

Problem:Right now we have Cloudability vendor credentialling set up for our AWS organizations and our AWS-hosted Databricks account. The vendor regions in the data sets has different naming conventions even though in reality they represent the sam...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review