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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Expanded Resource Inventory and Reservation Inventory

Expanded Resource Inventory and Reservation Inventory: We currently only have resource inventory for EC2, EBS, S3, RDS and Redshift. Some of our M&As are big OpenSearch, ElastiCache and Memory DB users so the resource information would be help...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Not under consideration

Creation date for Snapshots and EC2 instances

Creation date for Snapshots and EC2 instances: We have several accounts with very high Snapshot Costs, and it will help us target where we can save the most if we can tackle the oldest resources first.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Exclude idle time in IOPS and Throughput metrics

Consider excluding idle time when calculating IOPS and Throughput metrics used for recommendations or add it as an optional way to interpret and view recommendations. The current formula used is the sum of read and write operations dived by time p...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Treat Call and Trace metrics like any other time-series metrics

Regarding Application & Trace Data Retention policy, we claim that “Accurate metrics of applications, services, and endpoints are kept for 31 days.” After looking into this in detail, I have made the following observations: Call metrics with 1...
4 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

A possibility to have fixed Time Range in a specific Custom Dashboard

For example: in the whole Instana UI by default the Time Range is set to ‘Last Hour’ but for the specific dashboard created by myself I want to have it set for ‘Last Month’ and when I will open it, I won’t need to change anything - the ‘default’ C...
4 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

Credentialing GCP Detailed Billing in Cldy using GCS Bucket which is present in different project

Hey, The customer, JLR/Jaguar Landrover, is looking for the option to credential GCP Detailed Billing in Cloudability using GCS Buckets, which is present in another project. Is this something that can be considered?
4 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Create a new Presets button in the Time range Presets options for 'Last month' (or 'Last 28 days', something like this)

Simce Instana can show metrics up to 1 month why isn't there this kinda button in the presets. This can help with showing the 'Monthly overview' of the metrics f.e. in the Custom Dashboard section. Place where I imagine this idea to be developed a...
4 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Planned for future release

Adding a new auto-population column in an existing standard dimension which can be published to CT as well.

As of now it is not possible to add a new column in a standard dimension and auto-populate it in ITP whenever other column in the same standard dimension is populated by the planner. Please refer to Support Case No TS018500846 for more details.
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

API roi end point to support Accept = text/csv

Currently the API does not support Accept = text/csv hence we are not able to pull all fields with the API. Currently it is missing timeline if using Accept = text/csv
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Enable option on Cloudability, through which admins /or any other particular role(s), can customize / control, which users should receive Cloud Summary emails (also on which frequency), according to their roles & permissions

Enable option on Cloudability, through which admins and /or any other particular role(s) can customize / control, which users should receive Cloud Summary emails, on which frequency, based on their roles & permissions
4 months ago in Cloudability / Governance 1 Submitted