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Add Usage Family/Usage type to Resource Inventory

We request adding a field of Usage Family or Usage type to each line in the resource inventory in order to be able to separate any storage cost for example from actual instance usage. This can help especially when constructing reports via API call...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Planned for future release

Request for Numeric Event IDs in Instana

Title: Support for Numeric Event IDs in Instana Description: Currently, Instana generates event IDs as alphanumeric strings (UUID-like). While this ensures global uniqueness, it makes integration with external systems (e.g., SIEM, ServiceNow, Splu...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Planned for future release

Add Resource Name to GCP Resource Inventory (Compute Engine)

Resource Name is needed to ensure clear identification of GCE resources in Cloudability Resource ID which comes from GCP billing data is not clear enough (it looks more like a path and it doesn't contain the resource name) Resource Name field is c...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Disk usage metric for EBS and GPD

Currently we cannot look at the disk usage data for EBS and GPD, most of the disks are over provisioned and we pay for what we allocate than what we use. Cloudability is showing these metrics for RDS in AWS, why cant we do it for EBS and GPD with ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Enable vCPU Usage Metrics for Azure in Cloudability

Currently, Cloudability supports vCPU tracking for AWS and GCP, but Azure data lacks this metric. Since vCPU is crucial for Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans, and overall FinOps decision-making. Without this feature, Azure customers lack vis...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Include actual field names for metadata in the Resource Inventory Extract

Currently, the Resource Inventory csv extract shows only generic ("Tag 42") field headings. The actual field headings ("Cost Center") are available in the UI, and these same headings should appear in the csv extract, otherwise the exported data is...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Acknowledging alert

Currently, when an alert is triggered in Instana, our operations team receives a notification. While this is a crucial step in our monitoring workflow, we find that the process of acknowledging these alerts is not as streamlined as we would like i...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

After maintenace window no alerts created if host is still unavailable

After monthly patching we have noticed if a maintenance window was put in and the host was patched and rebooted and if Instana sees it as unavailable after the maintenance window has finished we do not get an alert.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

Trigger alert from offline event only if there was no restart after a configurable amount of time

Currently, if I create an alert based on an offline event, the alert will immediately be triggered when the entity goes offline. Often an entity is only restarted, so if an alert is generated that would be a false alert. Instead it should be possi...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

IBM MQ MFT: include host names in alert payloads (remote monitoring use case)

When monitoring IBM MQ MFT remotely, alert payloads do not include the hostname where the issue occurred. This request is to include the hostname where issues occur into the alert payload.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / MQ / Sensor 1 Planned for future release