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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.
about 1 month 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 ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2 Future consideration

Cloudability - Usage Stats

As a Cloudability admin, I should be able to pull usage statistics directly to understand and improve tool adoption. This should include statistics like count of unique users over time, features used within the tool.
10 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Instana to monitor Windows services for all the Start types like Automatic and Manual

To further enhance Windows host monitoring, we request an enhancement to the IBM Instana Windows monitoring to support detailed Windows service monitoring with the following features: 1. Ability to monitor all Microsoft Windows services for their ...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Sync configuration between two Instana Backend instances

There is no tool available to download/upload the Standard Edition backend configuration - neither stanctl command nor UI option. Lack of such capability brings significant additional burden for operation teams running Instana self-hosted deployme...
4 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Update mappings instantly

When creating a Business Mapping or Business Metric, it is necessary to wait 24 hours for the metrics to be populated, causing delays in deliveries or data visualization. We want updates to be instantaneous or at least with a short update period, ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Use fuzzy match on tags and label names for assigning to dimensions

Sometimes similar tags or labels are created that follow a pattern, it would be useful to be able to use fuzzy logic in finding matching tags and labels. For instance "clustername" it could be within "karpenter.sh/discovery/ClusterName" or aws:Clu...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Instana built-in health metrics

Instana backend provide built-in dashboard panels showing basic health metrics e.g. agent connection status, data delivery etc., backend data ingress and data ingestion status e.g. infrastructure, eum, events, user and apm
12 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Enhanced change log and version control system

Summary: Introduce a change log and version control system to track modifications made to business mappings, tags/labels, account group mappings, and views within the platform, allowing users to view, compare, and revert changes as needed. Use cas...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Future consideration

Instana UI User Connection Management

Can we have the ability to manage our user connections to the UI? Reason is so that we can forcefully disconnect users in case of SOS and we don't want everyone to storm the Instana UI. We'd love to restrict access during emergencies quickly.
8 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 5 Future consideration