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Ability to flag/unflag comments

Summary: Currently, comments are used on math tasks to ask questions to the test team. Frequently comments/questions are missed, as they get buried in other comments/follow ups, or within threads. We are requesting a mechanism to flag/unflag selec...
21 days ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 1 Not under consideration

Time delta between different entity states

Use case for illustrating the need for tracking the time delta between different activity states --> KPI/efficiency metrics. Currently we have several dates for an activity: I need a way to capture the following:* How long did it take between t...
21 days ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 0 Future consideration

Add some sample workflows and documentation for Expect SSH Integration into the Automation Library

At this time, there is no good documentation or samples for the ExpectSSH integration. While it could be argued that it's not needed, it's very difficult for a user to know how to design a workflow that uses the ExpectSSH array format. Know that t...
about 1 month ago in Concert Workflows 0 Submitted

Making "Your Month so Far" report more realistic in Current Month tab (Budget & Forecasting)

At the beginning of each month, the Estimated Monthly Cost and the % difference compared to last month often show unrealistically positive downward trend. However, as the days progress, the trend usually shifts and the numbers get worse. This earl...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Add Payback period/break even info for S3 optimization

S3 optimizition often includes moving objects from one storage type to another. This movement incurs a cost. This cost is not part of the optimization recommendation information, but can be a barrier to making a change. Having information on the c...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Include full previous month in Month over Month Comparison in Cloudability Dashboards

Current behavior when comparing Last Month with Previous Period, it is only including the number of Days in Last Month when comparing Previous Period. This is an issue when Last Month(i.e. June) only has 30 days. When comparing to May, it will onl...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0

WAS Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Enterprise Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application Status.
9 months ago in Instana / WAS 0 Future consideration

Agent Installation - Can provide an option to over-write the default `/tmp/.instana` folder PATH location to a path of the customers choice

While enabling Java Virtual threads Customer lost tracing of event calls. Further debugging with Instana support team, they found that the issue is that Instana is losing its temporary files staged in `/tmp/.instana/*` folder. As per Instana suppo...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Planned for future release

Product Documentation Clarity and Coverage

We've received feedback indicating that certain parts of the product documentation are difficult to understand, particularly when it comes to behavior that changes based on conditions on the CSP (Cloud Service Provider) side. Specifically: -There ...

Cloudability View Definition improvement

As a Cloudability Admin I would like to be able to define Views based on the Payer Account Id, and other core fields so that I can define the views that my users need. My organisation has multiple Payer Account Ids, and I do need to use that field...