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Creating views on the fly

As a FinOps, I would like to be able to dynamically create a new view for each existing statement in my Business mapping. It's currently quite painful to have to create views manually. Creating a view every time the BM statement is = "True" would ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 4 Future consideration

Feature to filter HTTP calls

Customer needs a way to disable some HTTP calls to be detected, for example filter the calls that contains a specific string in the path
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0

Ability to change order of cost sharing rules

customers can't change the cost sharing rules order when they need to change it from UI.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Provide initial REST API Token without going to UI to support seemless automation

Customers want to setup and configure Instana Backend and the tenant units in an fully automated way with no/minimal manual intervention. Many of the configuration tasks (like e.g. configure RBAC etc.) can only done with Instana REST API ( https:/...
8 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Add functionality to allow automated configuration of IdP (LDAP, SAML, OIDC,...)

Self Hosted Customers want a way to configure and setup instana in a completely automated way with no/minimal manual intervention. Standard case is that you will also want to configure IdP in your tenant unit (e.g. LDAP, SAML, ...). This is not po...
8 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Official Support for multiple tenant units for Self Hosted Custom Edition

Even the concept of Tenant Units is documented publicly on the installing self hosted custom edition documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=ice-installing#required-resources-custom-resource-definitions) - we...
8 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Add Additional Rightsizing ROI Metrics to ApptioBI Metrics

Our end users would like their potential rightsizing savings and realized savings metrics added to their base ApptioBI reports. Since Cloudability has the Rightsizing ROI report trackingr realized savings, why can't the realized savings metric als...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Add ability to populate Tenant with a default in login page

In multi-tenant environments without OIDC, the tenant input is currently blank is not automatically populated with an available default. This could be set by administrators.
8 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Not under consideration

Application Perspective creation improvements

When creating/updating an AP following improvements are suggested: - A "notes" field writing in for which purpose this AP was created- A "tag" field in which tags can be entered manually which can be used in the AP overview to group by.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Request for Instana’s authentication function

The customer would like to request to enable the use of multiple (at least two) Azure AD tenants for SAML authentication IdP. Our customer is using two Azure AD tenants as the authentication provider. One is for headquarter, the other is for IT su...
3 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Submitted