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ability to send alerts to multiple stakeholders/end users

ability to send alerts to multiple stakeholders/end users using the e-mail alerts button or for any budget compliance alerts or anomaly alerting.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability 0 Submitted

more nuanced anomaly detection report

similar functionality to aws cost explorer. edit time range, more details around cost spikes by services, ability to drill down.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Allow events to be cloned as a custom event

At present if someone likes a certain built-in event but wants to apply a scope to it or change the threshold they need to create the event from scratch. But you can easily add a clone button to create a new custom event, suing the bult-in event a...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Email - To field displays only a single email address

Description: Currently, when multiple email addresses are configured in the Instana Email Alert Channel (To field), all recipients successfully receive the alert email.However, in the received alert, the “To” field displays only a single email add...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 1 Submitted

Update Reference Data on Plans to provide details of line items that will be deleted/changed

If there are some missing entries in current reference data from earlier uploaded reference data, the customer would like the option to have the Update reference data panel on plans show even the details of which specific entries/line items/rows w...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

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...
8 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 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...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Under review

Add subgroups to Object Groups.

Object Groups are too flat. It would be nice to have sub-group for object groups. They would be populated by the same type of rules used for object groups except the source would be the parent group instead of a device group. A DI report that has ...
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

The data exported from CUR to blob storage includes the 'Unit of Measure' but it is not present in Cloudability. As part of the monthly usage report audit, the 'Unit of Measure' is one of the mandatory dimensions. Could you prioritize adding it?

For the audit, we are comparing the Azure pricing sheet with the Apptio usage report. The rates defined in the table above are based on the 'Unit of Measure.' The 'Unit of Measure' in the Azure pricing sheet and the CUR file differs however the pr...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 3 Needs more information

Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
10 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration