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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...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Increase limit for Rightsizing Policies.

In my org, we have multiple projects, as such have hit the maximum number of Rightsizing Policies CLDY allows us to create.
12 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

DB2 Alerting and Monitoring for Active Databases and Instance.

Hi Team!I can´t find Alerting to monitor if a Database is active or if an Instance is Up.Acording to DB2 documentation MON_GET_INSTANCE table function we need the follow elements to proper monitor Instance and Databases. SQLM_DB2_ACTIVE 0 The data...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Ability to export Forecast Variance Details in Cloud Financial Planning.

Customer would like ability to export Forecast Variance Details in CFP.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Future consideration

Include more services under RightSizing preferences

Currently you can only do few customisations for filtering the recommendations in EC2 and S3, we want more services under the preferences umbrella so that we can customise what we want in the recommendations in a better way.For Example: we don't w...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Adding the ability to filter IBM DataPower entities by IBM MQ v9+ objects

Dynamic focus query supports only filtering by appliance, cluster, domain or service objects. It would be useful to have the option to filter IBM MQ v9+ objects using name and status (see the idea INSTANA-I-3384), e.g., entity.ibmdatapower.qmv9.na...
9 months ago in Instana / DataPower 2 Future consideration

feature Budgets & Forecasting - remove Taxes on "Actual Cost"

When we forecasting, the actual cost brings taxes influencing all the cost values and forecasting itself. Our proposal is to remove taxes from this exercise NOTE: Already solved with business mapping and views
6 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Future consideration

Automated Custom certificates with no down time

We have a huge environment and distributing the certificates or scripts to each agent is not feasible. Provide an automated certificate process where the new certs are provisioned on each agent in parallel with the existing ones to allow either of...
9 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure Backup

A capacity reservation lowers storage costs of backup data in a Recovery Services Vault. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and ask where the additional reserved instance recommendations ar...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure Database for MySQL

Only the compute costs are included with a reservation. A reservation doesn't cover software, networking, or storage charges associated with the MySQL Database server. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look a...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration