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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...

Enable Cloudability to Ingest Azure Data via Private Endpoint

Description: We have a security policy that would need an exceptions process to be able to adopt Cloudability for Azure. We request an enhancement to allow Cloudability to ingest Azure cost and usage data through Azure Private Link or similar priv...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Expand the Cloudability Scorecard Capabilities Across AWS Services and extend the Historical View

Currently Scorecard component in Cloudability provides valuable insights , but its scope is limited primarily to AWS Compute Services and a 30-day view. This restricts our ability to measure optimization maturity and track long term improvements a...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability 0 Under review

Requesting to add "Day of week" to business mapping for rightsizing tables.

Working on creating a COIN Dashboard for each provider AWS, Azure and GCP. In order to calculate Non production and Production costs by weekday and weekend, we need to evaluate the daily cost from the rightsizing data to categorize accordingly.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Perform periodic internal backups of all databases

We recently suffered some corruption of the Common Services Postgres database and found out that the pods themselves do not take any sort of backups to mitigate this situation. On a support call recently it was discovered that the Zen Database doe...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

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...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Planned for future release

Object groups & device groups should not be allowed to be deleted, if a policy uses that group.

How it works currently : Upon deleting a device/object group, the associated policy also gets deleted. How should it work: When trying to delete a device/object group that is associated with a policy, an error/warning should be thrown to the user....
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Ability to distinguish Service/Endpints with same name from different clusters

We have setup alerts to monitor complete drop in calls for Service & Endpoints. However, we have the same applicaiton (NOI) installed for two separate environments i.e. clusters (e.g. QA & PROD); the services and endpoints have same name e...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Functionality already exists

Add Effective Costs and Savings from Rightsizing to Apptio BI

Hi Team, Would you please consider to add Effective Costs and Savings from Rightsizing to Apptio BI? Right now, only on-demand is being displayed, as these costs are usually higher, they create wrong expectations within the organization. Thanks fo...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Request for 32-bit Support in mqtracingexit for ITCAM MQ Agent Compatibility

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-tracing#downloading-ibm-mq-tracing-user-exit-for-on-premises-ibm-mq We are currently facing an issue with the IBM MQ Tracing Exit (mqtracingexit) on one of our Linux environments t...
3 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review