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Customer would like to request the ability to display the region of each resource in the Rightsizing ROI screen, even if it's shown in a detail section.

Customer would like the ability to display the region of each resource in the Rightsizing ROI screen, even if it's shown in a detail section. Background: When reviewing recommendations, customer sometimes needs to locate the corresponding resource...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Support HTTP Parameter Filtering in Adaptive Threshold for Smart Alerts

Currently, Instana Smart Alerts allow HTTP parameter filtering only in static threshold mode. However, dynamic thresholds — which offer adaptive baselining and anomaly detection — do not support filtering by HTTP parameters Proposal:Extend adaptiv...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 6 Future consideration

Share Cloudability users analytics

Add to the Cloudability admin console a widget with usage by our users (analytics)
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

OMNIbus SNMP Probe should support SNMPv3 SHA512 authentication type

Security is important for every customer and they want to use strong encryption modes. The SNMP probe is based on net-snmp 5.8 which supports SHA-512: http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/Strong_Authentication_or_Encryption Question: Authenticat...
over 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 3 Future consideration

Continuously sending alerts (or expiring alerts) past a defined threshold to avoid overlooking.

We have encountered a critical operational challenge: When a single alert is triggered and then overlooked or ignored, there is currently no built-in capability within Instana to continuously resend or reissue that alert past a defined threshold o...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Limit communication between PSS and DS to a specific eth interface

In an environment where servers have multiple eth interfaces it, all the traffic between PSS and DS ought to happen only between those interfaces that are specified in collation.properties. Currently, despite configuring DS <-> PSS communica...
5 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Planned for future release

Customizable metric multiplier / threshold for rightsizing recommendation

In some production enviroments, workloads are intentionally overprovisioned to allow for burst capacity, stability or failover requirements.In most cases this is has to do with compliance and regulations bound apps. We propose addig a metric multi...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

We would like to see labels / annotations at a pod-level instead of a cluster-level via report or API

Our internal team tags their Kubernetes clusters at a pod level because they track their client's usage via pods since it's more granular. However, right now Cloudability reports and API pulls only give us access to cluster level labels & anno...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Cloudability feature that analyzes Azure Event Hubs and reports over-provisioning and rightsizing recommendations

What We Need A Cloudability feature that analyzes Azure Event Hubs usage and tells us when we're paying for more capacity than we need (or when we're about to hit limits). Since tier and capacity are set at the namespace level, we need rightsizing...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation 0 Submitted

Amortization Schedule in Editable Table

When entering data in an editable table for a cost Item that needs to be spread out for time period duration it would be really helpful if the user can just check a box as is done in planning the cost can be amortized for the specific time. This w...
22 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Submitted