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API - missing link between service and process

Hi, I'm trying to retrieve the whole application stack (AP > service > process > host) through the Instana API. Currently I'm using the following API requests: {{baseURL}}/api/application-monitoring/applications?nameFilter=xxx {{baseURL}}...
17 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Add a new field with OS distibution info (i.e. Ubuntu 20.04) that will be displayed in host details from Instana dashboard.

Host details from Instana dashboard is showing only kernel release field (i.e. linux 5.15.0-1038-gcp). It should be useful to add the OS distribution field (i.e. Ubuntu 20.04) as well. The field should be available for Linux. This information will...
29 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Custom Dashboard Trafficlight widget

We're using the custom dashboards for a while now, and we are missing some customization features like a traffic light Widget.That's why we use Instana Custom Dashboards for simple dashboards and Grafana for dashboards, that need to be more meanin...
7 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Infrastructure 5 Not under consideration

Multiple tabs for a custom dashboard

At present we don't have option to add multiple tabs in a single instans custom dashboard, it will be hard to monitor by adding more number of charts within a same dashboard
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Under review

Add Disk & IOP usage to Infrastructure Comparison Table for hosts

It'd be useful to be able to have a view of all the nodes in an environment or K8s cluster that can be sorted by disk volume or IOP pressure. Infrastructure/Application Support/SRE would benefit. I imagine it working by being it's own column that ...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Under review

Close an incident

An incident (or issue) occurs and it appears to be a false positive.It would be useful that this incident can be closed with a comment for example
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Planned for future release

Instana support for monitoring Netezza

Customer is asking for a way to monitor traffic, load and performance for Netezza Performance Server in near real time.
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Under review

Instana console showing servers in offline state

There happend a case where a few servers had instana agent stopped running and they stopped showing up on the console infrastructure monitoring. There should be a way in the instana console where we can see the server being shown in the map or in ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration

Can we group all our custom dashboards in to folders

It would be great if we have option to group all our custom dashboards in to different folders
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Space to add description to the Charts in instana dashboard

We don't have an option to add a small notes/ description about the particular chart when we scroll over the chart. Only Chart title will not be feasible to explain about the chart to team members. Please help to add the useful notes space on cust...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Under review