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Container Cost Allocation data available in Dashboard and Reporting

Customers would like to be able to build Cloudability dashboards and reports using the same data that is available in the Container Cost Allocation feature.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Export All should use a fixed column order, and not vary with my Layout

The current functionality is confusing and non-intuitive, and interferes with many assumptions about how process flow should work. "Export All" should be a trustworthy 'I don't know what I need, give me everything' button that I can drp into Excel...
18 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Submitted

Metric and Dashboard for Server Uptime

Hi Team!Anyway to get Server Uptime information ?Most observability solutions have this feature, so would be very welcome Instana as well. Having server uptime visible in dashboards or alerts provides operational clarity and helps identify issues ...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Build support for subscribing distribution lists to alerts (without the 'service account workaround')

Cloudability customers would like the ability to set up subscriptions (reports, alerts, anomalies, insights, etc) to be delivered to an exisiting distribution list. Today, the only way to do this is to create a service account using the distro lis...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

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.
19 days ago in Cloudability 0 Submitted

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...
20 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Use GPS for geolocation instead of IP address for more accurate location

For real user monitoring or EUM (end-user monitoring): would be great if we can use GPS on mobile device for more accurate geolocation besides using IP Address
2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Submitted

Request for support of metrics/thresholds that are not available in Instana today for Linux (LZ)

An IBM customer moving away from ITM into the realm of Instana. They are looking for product enahncement to get all the metric/thresholds they are using to be available in Instana. See the list below for the supported metrics/thresholds that are n...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 1 Submitted

Add Visualization on view as WEEKLY in visualization report

to better visualize data on weekly progress on savings
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Submitted

Log who triggered an integration sync

In Settings > Integrations > CSV export / import > "View messages log", it is possible to review logs for data imports and exports. One of the events that are logged is "Export run was triggered by USER". It would be a good improvement to...
11 days ago in Targetprocess / Other Integrations 0 Submitted