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Please make the Price adjustment tab cloud agnostic and allow users to enter in a static discount for a resource type

Currently, the Price adjustment tab is only valid for AWS subscriptions, despite there already being a separate AWS discounts tab. This is very confusing. Intutively, I would think the price adjustment tab should be used without without a billing ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Rightsizing recommendation support for Elastisearch

I believe that a significant number of customers have considerable spend on key AWS service like Elastisearch. It would be highly valuable to have rightsizing recommendations available for the service to help optimize costs and drive greater effic...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Rightsizing recommendation support for Elasticache

Hi team, I believe that a significant number of customers have considerable spend on key AWS services like ElastiCache . It would be highly valuable to have rightsizing recommendations available for the service to help optimize costs and drive gre...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

IBM MQ tracing on IBM i does not work with newer libstdcplusplus6 12.4.0-3 version

IBM MQ tracing on IBM i does not work with newer libstdcplusplus6 12.4.0-3 version, the workaround was to downgrade the lib to 10.5.0-2 Already discussed with Brock Shamblin I think we should either provide a support or mention this in the documen...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i / Tracing 0 Under review

Refresh Forecast/Actuals/Estimate in CFP Plan without needed to create a new plan

When the base cost dimension changes, there is no way to update the forecast/Budget/actuals with that new information without creating a new plan.For instance, if the base dimensions are created from Account number and new accounts are created, yo...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Subscribe to get Rightsizing reports via email

Proactive alerts to highlight optimization opportunities are more effective in some customers than a self service model. Customers want to be able to subscribe to rightsizing opportunities within their area of responsibility. This functionality co...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Allow granularity to Disable Profiles

BackgroundWe recently created a dedicated group to manage and restrict access to infrastructure-related information. This group has been granted access only to specific application perspectives and selected websites, ensuring that sensitive infras...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

I would like to request a policy change so that a new version number is assigned to the Instana agent with each BootStrap release.

There are cases where the version number of the Instana agent does not change even though the BootStrap included in the Instana agent has been updated. Because of this, when a bug is detected in BootStrap, it becomes impossible to identify which v...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Populate Resource Name dimension for Azure

The Resource Name dimension isn't populated for Azure. This is a key field, present in the CUR and should be made available in Cloudability. Without it, it is quite cumbersome to always rely on the Resource Id, which is a very long string. Coupled...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Under review

Enable Internet Service Monitoring protocols in Instana

We must be able to monitor more protocols with less effort like an ISM Agent: DNS resolution, DHCP, FTP, LDAP, NTP, TCP PORT, SNMP simple, Synthetic Check sensor supports HTTP and ICMP ping. We can ensure a seamless migration of customers from ITM...
7 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Future consideration