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Enable Datadog account and costs to be visible via Account Group views and definitions

Enable Datadog account and costs to be visible via Account Group views and definitions Currently when I go to Organize/Account Groups then I do not see any Accounts for Vendor Datadog. I have tried sorting and scanning the list of accounts. no luc...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

Customer needs support for monitoring Oracle Data Guard.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Submitted

Capability to sort Day of Week dimension in correct order

Today, when selecting day of week, you can choose ascending or descending but that only changes ordering based on alphabetical order. It would make sense to have an option to ensure day of week is always in the correct order.
4 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Provide ability to read Prometheus Metrics with Bearer token

Hi Team, We are trying to retrieve prometheus metrics in instana UI which are authenticated with bearer token. We followed below configuration, but it's not working, let us know is any other changes required com.instana.plugin.prometheus: poll_rat...
9 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Consolidate Resource Name across all CSPs into a single dimension

AWS uses the "name" tag, Azure needs a regex business mapping and GCP/SaaS platforms use Resource Name. Consolidating all vendors into the Resource Name field would make it easier to report on and use in business mappings.
5 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Micrometer Metric Collection - Fine granular metric polling config

Currently, it is possible to configure the JVM Sensor's polling interval with the following in the configuration.yaml: com.instana.plugin.java: poll_rate: 60 It is also possible to separately configure the Prometheus Metric Collection's polling in...
13 days ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Submitted

Enable Hostname Resolution for Instana Agent Pods Running Without Host Network

Currently, in Kubernetes clusters where the Instana agent runs without hostNetwork mode, the host sensor retrieves the pod name instead of the actual host name (FQDN).This happens because the hostname is determined using the hostname command, whic...
16 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Enable customers to upload Excel/CSV/JSON files directly in the UI to automatically create or update Business Mapping statements with built-in validation and one-click rollback

Today, users cannot upload Excel/CSV/JSON files directly in the UI to create or update Business Mapping statements.Because of this limitation CSMs/TAM/Admins must manually convert customer files into statements. Large Business Mapping updates (doz...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Could 'AWS Cloud WAN' be assigned to ATUM Service Category 'Network'

It is currently 'unallocated'. Therefore WAN (wide area network) charges are NOT picked up in the Network section as they should. This makes all reporting based on ATUM Service Category 'Network' incomplete.
25 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Support for AWS Cost Categories

We currently have AWS cost categories in place and is extensively used to reflect our organisation structure, ownership and allocation for our costs. Rather than redoing this work via Business Mapping it would be great if Cloudability could import...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted