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WMI proxy port encryption AES-128 is depreciated

Organization is depreciating AES-128. They can use it now, but in the near future it will need an exception. can only use approved cryptographic measures. Support to customer: Hello Richard, I don't believe there are plans in place to update the W...
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Include the Connection count metric for Azure SQL recommendations

Rightsizing - We need Cloudability to have the number of connections metric for Azure SQL Database recommendations - "Succesful connections" in the details of the recommendations
9 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Automatic link between Openstack Hypervisor and Computer Instances pages if on the machine is present an Instana agent

In a holistic view it will be very useful to have a link from the Openstack dashboards to the single agent page if the machine shown in the Openstack dasbhboard hosts an Instana agent too. In this perspectives the information produced by Openstack...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Allow custom metric reporting without a primary dimension defined

Problem: I have several custom metrics defined in my Cost Transparency data set. I would like to be able to show both grand values and trended breakdowns per month for a selected time frame. Right now when I try to build that summary I get the err...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Create Business Perspective per Process Application

When creating a new Perspective in the Business Monitoring capability of Instana I would like to be able to filter on Process Applications to be able to create a Perspective per Process Application. All business processes for that Process Applicat...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

In Rightsizing ROI, add capability to add business dimensions to rightsizing filters.

Currently in Optimization > Rightsizing ROI, the existing [+ Add Filter] menu lists a very limited set of dimensions for use.Filters do not match those available in Optimization > Rightsizing
9 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Device Reimport Options | Managing device upgrades IRT.

Today, when we are doing device management and we identify when device hardware has changed, we must reimport the device into the solution. That process today requires us to add the device to the deletion queue, wait for deletion, then readd via c...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Cloud / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Future consideration

Sort health column for application in custom table dashboard

We have created custom dashboard to visualize application health (Datasource: infrastructure, entity type: JVM) and want to add tag as column. unfortunately, if tag is added to this table, the health column disappears. We have java 17 applications...
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Enhance/Limit role permission for ViewsFeatureCreateOwnViewsAccess

As the FinOps practitioner for a large organization, it is important that our tenants are able to be self sufficient in their data. As such, we have implemented a custom Cloudability user role that contains the permission ViewsFeatureCreateOwnView...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Views 1 Future consideration

Define which Asset Classes are available for new plans, and which legacy

My organisation has changed the useful life of software assets from 5 years to 3 years, but the class is still the same. As a Budget Process Owner, I have to show the expected depreciation of 5 year assets from my asset register. However, I also n...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration