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Subscribe to get Rightsizing reports via email

Proactive alerts to highlight optimization opportunities are more effective in some customers than a self service model. Customers want to be able to subscribe to rightsizing opportunities within their area of responsibility. This functionality co...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Alert notifications or subscriptions via Slack / Teams, etc.

Companies are getting away from email and moving to messaging platforms like Slack and Teams. Customers want to subscribe alerts to specific Slack channels vs. getting an email.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Future consideration

Requesting to add "Day of week" to business mapping for rightsizing tables.

Working on creating a COIN Dashboard for each provider AWS, Azure and GCP. In order to calculate Non production and Production costs by weekday and weekend, we need to evaluate the daily cost from the rightsizing data to categorize accordingly.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Commitment Support for AWS Sagemaker Savings Plans Recommendations

Commitment Support for AWS Sagemaker Savings Plans Recommendations
5 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Provide public API to update Rightsizing ROI tickets or add comments

One of my customer in inquiring if we can enable or consider enabling write access for cloudability API V3. When it comes to rightsizing ROI data, the cloudability API V3 is read only, which is preventing them from adding comments or updating entt...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to use custom LDAP libraries or modify LDAP search parameters

When it comes to security, a robust authentication setup is key. In this regard, the way is implemented in production environments may lead to use non-standard settings or mixing different approaches to suit operation's needs. The request is to ei...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 4 Future consideration

Instana support local monitoring For IBM DataPower Physical Appliance

Currently, Instana’s support for DataPower is limited to remote monitoring options for the DataPower Physical Appliance. However, our client is requesting local monitoring capabilities on the appliance itself. Since DataPower operates as a black b...
3 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Update mappings instantly

When creating a Business Mapping or Business Metric, it is necessary to wait 24 hours for the metrics to be populated, causing delays in deliveries or data visualization. We want updates to be instantaneous or at least with a short update period, ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

I would like to request a policy change so that a new version number is assigned to the Instana agent with each BootStrap release.

There are cases where the version number of the Instana agent does not change even though the BootStrap included in the Instana agent has been updated. Because of this, when a bug is detected in BootStrap, it becomes impossible to identify which v...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Custom Dashboard -use metric per Database (schema) already available under MSSQLServer

We have valuable metrics under MSSQLSERVER server monitoring in instana. but it is not possible to create a widget with these metric. I need to be able to put in a custom dashborads for example: "Connections & Users" for a specific Schema on a...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Future consideration