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Add audit trail logging for Instana alert channel

Hi, While implementing Instana at a banking IT data center in Germany we discovered the need for logging the alert channel interactions that have happened. The automation framework already provides such an action history. We need exactly that for ...
15 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Updating monthly amounts in the Forecast

When you hit the pencil to edit a forecast and then type your information into the month you want to change, the total doesnt change until after you close out. Can it instead update immediately so that you can see your new total. This is especiall...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Quarterly forecasts should not auto calculate unless you physically put a new number in that field

If you put different dollar amounts in Jul, Aug and Sep but then accidentally click in the Q3 cell, it automatically totals those three months and then peanut butter spreads the average erasing your custom amounts! This function should only work i...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Improve Instana SaaS Account & Billing features by Billing Simulation

The feature of Billing Simulation and Forecast Event Notification in Dynatrace is needed at Instana. - Billing Simulation is displayed until the contract end date, showing three values: upper bound, lower bound, and average. - If an event occurs t...
4 months ago in Instana / GenAI observability 1 Submitted

Cloudability Dynamic Currency Service

Rather than use a manual upload of currencies for managing cldy cross platform currencies, it would make sense to use a dynamic service to make an API call and set this in the platform as opposed to a manual upload. API is also a must
16 days ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Submitted

Upload Business Mappings via CSV

For many financial teams creating business mappings in the UI is cumbersome and they lack the skills to be able to create JSON. Its been requested that we should provide the ability to upload Business Mapping statements via CSV to Cloudability.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Submitted

Associate synthetic tests to websites and mobile apps using the Terraform provider

Synthetic tests can be associated with applications, websites and mobile apps using the UI, but the terraform provider only supports the association with applications. We would like a way to get the association done for synthetic tests as well wit...
3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Provision DNS & SSL tests using the Terraform provider

Http action & scripts can be provisioned using Terraform. This is not possible right now for DNS & SSL tests.
3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

New cloud services support required in Workload Planning

Hi, as part of our workload planning use case, our project managers build estimates using WP for new projects, where we require support for additional services in step 2 (resource type) while adding a resource. (Regarding the services that are ver...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 0 Submitted

Adding OTel collector management to the instana console in self-hosted Instana standard version.

Hi, with the customer's request we raised an IBM ticket to check if the OTEL collector management is possible from the instana console. And the support confirmed that the feature is currently available for SAAS but asked to rais an idea with IBM t...
17 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted