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Add security notice configured in Cluster settings to the header of all reports.

Add security notice configured in Cluster settings to the header of all reports.
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Needs more information

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...
7 months ago in Instana / DataPower 2 Needs more information

Feasibility to embed Dashboards in external Web app

Some dashboards i would like to embed them in one of our internal web app. This will be useful to quickly view dashbaords from the app without navigating to Instana.
2 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Needs more information

Include license costs in the rightsizing opportunity calculation

It has come to our attention that the savings opportunity shown in the cloudability rightsizing are not inclusive of licensing costs, as a result saving potential is being understated for resources that would also see a license save as a result of...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Needs more information

Ability to Report on the Azure Recommendations

The ability to generate a report that compares existing commitments against recommended commitments, enabling us to identify under-provisioning or over-provisioning across different workloads.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 2 Needs more information

Add customer branding to the User Interface

The idea is to allow configuration of custom logo and theme colors across the UI (and alerts like Email). Since Instana has a wide range capabilitiles, some customers use Instana as a stand-alone tool without other dashboarding solutions. The UI b...
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Needs more information

Sort Vendor Credentials Account Names

There appears to be no sort order for Vendor Account Names within an Account. As an example we have an Azure Enterprise account with 100 subscriptions. The order of the subscriptions listed under the account appears to be random and although you c...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Needs more information

Need to be able to observe all events applied to Infrastructure map

Dear Colleagues, our customer is using Infrastructure map for wall screen monitor. And they ask for ability to map all events on the zones/pilars of Infrastructure map. At the moment it looks like if something happens with pod, or application cust...
2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Needs more information

Would like to see subfolders in TBM Studio

Having subfolders to organize documents would be helpful because with only one layer the amount of documents makes it hard to sort through and organize.
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Needs more information

Support for Plotting Cost Variation (% or Absolute) in Widget Charts

Request Type: Feature Request Description: As a FinOps team member, I want the ability to visualize cost variation—either as a percentage change or absolute value change—rather than only viewing absolute costs on widget charts. This would help me ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Needs more information