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Add Databricks cluster names to Cloudability for Databricks GCP

Cloudability Databricks GCP connector is not bringing in Databricks cluster names. As result it is difficult to use Cloudability to understand which Databricks GCP cluster contributed to costs. Cloudability shows Databricks Azure cluster names. Da...

Reserved Coverage Rate metric needs to include Azure's MS Fabric

We have dashboard widgets to surface our Reserved Coverage Rate. We recently purchased large reservations for Microsoft Fabric and the Reserved Coverage Rate never increased. We subsequently learned that Fabric was not included in the Metric.
15 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Create business mapping dimensions dynamically

I'd like to be able to create business mappings dynamically. For example, using regular expressions to dynamically create new business mappings each time an expression is matched. I would be much easing rather than create a specific statement for ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2 Future consideration

Java Configuration-based SDK need support LMAX disruptor framework

We have a major business partner(Worldline - a world wild payment solution provider) is using LMAX disruptor within their new generation payment solution(PaySuite), they would like to partner with us to leverage Instana as the primary observabilit...
12 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Missing traces for pods that run for about 5-10 minutes

The issue is caused because the instrumentation is not completed by the time the job completes its execution, which results in missing of trace data. We need the agent to be started - and running - before the application so we can instrument all t...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Filtering traces and trace spans based on time spent in various stages such as self-time, network time, waiting time

Knowing the self-time and waiting time of HTTP requests would help in understanding the performance of the system and the performance of downstream systems. This will be helpful in creating accurate SLO dashboards that measure the performance of e...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

Start basic remote monitoring for detected unmonitored hosts

Capability to refine unmonitored services and be able to create an infrastructure representation of still unmonitored host (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.302?topic=instana-monitoring-applications#the-unmonitored-infrastruct...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Needs more information

Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
12 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Flagging Promotional Credits in GCP as Promotional Credits instead of falling under the general bucket of credits

Customers like Ulta and others have millions of dollars in Promotional Credits each year. Currently Cloudability doesn't offer the option to flag these promotional credits as Promotional Credits, rather they fall under the general bucket of Credit...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Needs more information