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Container Cost Allocation Filters for Kubernetes Labels need to support all operators to help teams get insights on K8S clusters that have labels with similar or dissimilar values (Contains, Not Equals, Does Not Contain)

We have teams use Kubernetes labels that follow patterns to help them group similar clusters together (for example: MFG-A1, MFG-A2, ...). The current Filter for Labels on Container Cost Allocation only support the "equals" operator which causes a ...
24 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Request to support locales other than English for DB on i.

Currently, the agent only supports the English locale for DB on i.However, many Japanese users have their locale set to Japan, and this situation is causing many IBM i users to miss out on the opportunity to use Instana. With support, Instana's bu...
17 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Ability to share a report with a 'Microsoft Entra ID' group.

It will be usefull if we are able to share a report to a group of people based on 'Microsoft Entra ID' group. As a large company, we have systems that group people into groups and keep those groups up to date. Which is not the case at individuals ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Instana SaaS hosted in Azure + Azure Marketplace offering

In Norway as for rest of Scandinavia the main public cloud is Azure. Azure has datacenters in Norway and Sweden, and most clients prefer to host SaaS applications there. Offering Instana SaaS in Azure in Europe would skip questions as mostly all o...
9 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

[Rightsizing service] Align the Cloudability API and the Cloudability IU by adding the UI the option to filter by 'last seen' date per vendor page.

The filter by 'last seens' date help to filter non-exsit resources. That help to get better vision on actionable recommendations.The CSV and the API has this data already - and we want to align the UI for it.We plan to create a promotion email for...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Instana to instrument IBM Financial Transaction Manager and ODM for Payments

Bank client wants to use Instana to monitor traces, metrics and logs from IBM Financial Transaction Manager. Asking for Instana to support FTM observability. Goal is end-to-end observability in Financial Transaction Manager to reduce MTTR for FTM....
9 days ago in Instana / WAS 0 Submitted

Add Otel tags in log volume Analysis

Add Open Telemetry tags filter group in log volume to facilite analysis volumetry sent directly to Instana Backend (without passing through Instana Agent)
9 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Container Cost Allocation Based on Labels Instead of Namespaces

The customer has over 40 Kubernetes clusters with numerous shared resources within a single namespace across different cost centers. They would like the Kubernetes cost allocation feature to support allocation of resources based on labels, rather ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Support for custom scripts to generate alerts with scheduling in Instana.

The Instana capability would consist of providing an option to associate a custom script with a host or any other element, along with a scheduler that runs the script at a defined interval. Depending on the script output, an alert event could be g...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Submitted

Bring Your Own S3 Bucket Support for IBM FinOps Agent (Containers Metric Deployment)

The IBM FinOps Agent currently requires outbound connectivity to transmit container metrics, which presents challenges for private or highly regulated Kubernetes environments. We propose introducing a “Bring Your Own S3 Bucket” (BYOS3) deployment ...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted