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Instana UI User Connection Management

Can we have the ability to manage our user connections to the UI? Reason is so that we can forcefully disconnect users in case of SOS and we don't want everyone to storm the Instana UI. We'd love to restrict access during emergencies quickly.
8 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 5 Future consideration

New pipeline step for Sort

Would like to have a new step in the transform pipeline which allows us to select a column and sort it by value (if numerical field) or alphabetically (if text field). Use Case 1 Generally when admin are going through tables and are investigatin...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Right Sizing Recommendation Include Sustainability Savings Data

When viewing right sizing recommendations I need to see the sustainability benefit of making the change as well as the cost benefit. I am working with Green Pixie who I would like to integrate their data sources with Cloudability so I can view the...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Custom dashboard with more customization abilities

A customer is Hong Kong built their own custom dashboard on Instana. They request for the ability to edit the custom Dashboard's font size, bold, underline, color etc to facilitate their needs.
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Subscribe to Multiple Views for Cloud Spend Summary Emails Notification

Currently, Cloud Spend Summary Emails notification is limited only available for a Single Default View. However, as platform/business owners, we are managing multiple applications which managed through different customized Views. It would be great...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Add CANC P status to dropdown for event rule monitoring Job Stream change of status

Our staff were somewhat surprised by the CANC P status because we really have no collective memory of encountering that before. It would be probably more truthful to say the status was overlooked, assuming that it had been cancelled, but nobody co...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Need a feature to monitor the long running job in IBM i

Need a feature to monitor the long running job in IBM i. The time exception will be provided by application team for the respective jobs. The alert should be triggered with the time threshold for that particular job is breached.
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

Auto-detect and exclude Hosts dedicated for maintenance/operational vacancy

Telefónica intentionally has some empty hosts, without load, exclusively to move load there during update/maintenance/obsolescence tasks. It is not a fixed rule, but it is usually one free host for every 8 or 9 hosts. This Telefónica's policy is a...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Future consideration

Enable the view of Plan name from IBM CSV billing file

We are looking to get the data about the instance type / family / Category to create reports to track GPU usage in IBMC via Cloudability.As much as I looked the Plan name contain this data that will enable us to create that report. Because this vi...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

New Plug-in: Kafka Job Type and Dashboard

Kafka has become an integral part of the financial services technology stack, enabling real-time event streaming across diverse lines of business. From fraud detection to regulatory compliance, its applications are vast and impactful. However, the...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration