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RightSizing ROI Screen Filters- add Account Id / Name

As an FinOps Lead in Cloudability I want to easily navigate to those ROI items that are for my payer or my account(id or name). Please add these fields to the screen and the report filters.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Surface Mongo organisation name in addition to ID

In MongoDB cost data integration, only the Organisation ID is surfaced as accounts in the vendor credentials but we have both the friendly name and id in the Mongo cost data. please can we surface the friendly name also so we do not need to create...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 4 Future consideration

Scope level access needed for CSA UI

In IBM , we have multiple AWS master payers from different business units onboarded onto our CSA instance as different scopes. The stakeholders for these master payers would like to get access to the CSA UI, to see their savings, utilization etc. ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation 1 Future consideration

Allow more than one Insight per Apptio BI report

This would allow more insight benefits to be obtained and more conveniently. Otherwise multiple reports need to be spawned in order create required Insights.
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

License expiration notification should be configurable

Currently, all users accessing Instana will get a notification that the license is about to expire 30 days prior to license end date. This notification should be configurable, allowing admins to enable and configure it. Configuration of who gets t...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 1 Future consideration

Object Groups in the Metadata widget: Allow the source group to be a Class. Allow for a regex pattern to filter the object groups within the selected Class.

It would allow the widget to display object groups that were dynamically added. It would allow more control over which groups get displayed.
11 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

DB2 - HADR_FLAGS metric to be Monitored and Alerted

Hi Team!According to Instana documentation, sounds "HADR_FLAGS" metric is not collected, correct ?So when a tablespaces is invalid or error state on the Standby database, the HADR_FLAGS field will displaythe value STANDBY_TABLESPACE_ERROR. Monitor...
about 2 years ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Future consideration

At the top of each Performance Metrics widget, have a toggle button for every feature that is enable from the Analyze widget settings tab.

A widget with many indicator rows requires clicking on each row to disable or enable them in the view. It would be nice to, with one click, be able to just turn on or off all baselines, time-over time, percentile, trend, etc.
11 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Develop Container ROI Policy to track Container Optimizations

As a FinOps practitioner at a large company, it's imperative to track & report on all savings achieved. We are currently unable to track any container optimization savings as there isn't an ROI policy available for Containers.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

adding a UI for Custom metric collection with SQL queries

currently we are using statsD and a too many cronjobs to run SQL scripts to get custom metrics. adding a UI will help maintaining scripts, DB connections and will be easier to create custom scripts and visualize it. Current procedure: install DB c...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration