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Expand shared views to include all hierarchy levels

When currently sharing a view with an external user, that user will only be able to see the 1st level hierarchy of the report and are not able to drill down to see lower level items. This defeats the purpose of having a shared view if the external...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Not under consideration

AD/LDAP Integration with Client's certificate for bind

LDAP integration (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.300?topic=configuration-configuring-ldap) accepts client's certificate for binding, additional to Bind DN and Password. It should be another configurable option.
2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Events should not be closed automatically until the issue gets resolved

The events are getting auto-closed in Instana for all the metrics such as Jobs, CPU, etc. We want the event to be closed only if the issue is resolved in the next poll.
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i 4 Not under consideration

Support for databricks on AWS EKS

Databricks monitoring is supported in Azure and we need support for this on AWS EKS.
12 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Not under consideration

Download formula step for easier copy and pasting

If you are building in a branch and you have a lot of formulas to copy over to the trunk, assuming you don't want to merge, you can download the formulas all at once to an excel or other tool.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Not under consideration

Proper Version Control of Scheduling Objects

Currently, the version control of scheduling objects is directly tied to the audit logs. This means that if you modify an object older than the value set in the global option auditHistory (default is 400 days), you lose the ability to see what was...
7 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Option to disable the Daily emails on cost summary for across the Org

Hi Team, an option to disable the daily cloud cost summaries emails sent to users would be great, as customer has mentioned the email is irrelevant to the most stakeholders in the org, and currently we cannot disable the emails for other users, ev...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Not under consideration

User / Group Management (IAM) mapping Automatic view allocation

Need to connect AAD Richemont groups to Cloudability roles with an automatic binding. The roles would be applied to views also. Lifecycle of roles to be managed manually (Users in Frontdoor + Cloudability)
6 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 5 Not under consideration

Azure and GCP utilization metrics needed in Reports in Dashboard in Cldy and ABI

Many customers have a need for utilisation metrics for Azure and GCP in Cldy - its been called out as a feature deficit for years. Its needed for customers so they can dive deep into longer term (like over a year) metrics util on instances to see ...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards / Resource Inventory 1 Not under consideration

Off button for log entry

Customers want to have control to stop log intake in case they are approaching the maximum log intake purchased. To date, there is no mechanism to stop logs from being sent to Instana.
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration