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We have 7500 VMs monitored by monitoring at vCenters. We want to retrict the vSphere monitoring to ESXi level and want to disable VMs monitoring.

We have 7500 VMs monitored by monitoring at vCenters. We want to restrict the vSphere monitoring to ESXi level and want to disable VMs monitoring. Kindly prioritize it as monitoring high number of VMs without the requirement add performance overhe...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure Delivered

Create one Smart Alert for monitoring the same threshold for many volumes

Hello Team, Instana offers monitoring of disk/volume usage based on named metric like "/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root" Used disk percentage and for each kind of volume we ask users to create a separate Smart Alert. Our customer is interested in monit...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure Delivered

Add Support for Adaptive (Dynamic Baseline) Alerting in Infrastructure Smart Alerts

Currently, the Infrastructure Smart Alerts feature only supports static thresholding, even though the UI mentions “time-dependent” values. These thresholds do not adapt automatically to changes in system behavior over time. Instead, users must man...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure Delivered

Metric and Dashboard for Server Uptime

Hi Team!Anyway to get Server Uptime information ?Most observability solutions have this feature, so would be very welcome Instana as well. Having server uptime visible in dashboards or alerts provides operational clarity and helps identify issues ...
10 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure Delivered

MongoDb infrastructure monitoring enhancements

New features for MongoDB infrastructure monitoring
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure Delivered

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure Delivered

Monitoring the number of Cassandra Tombstones

We have recently found that Cassandra (a component of CNEA/ASM) performance is degraded due to large number of Tombstones. However, we can only see the high number of tombstones in pod logs but not a metric we can monitor. If we can montior the co...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure Delivered

Monitor Processes that are in zombie State

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-os-process#process-abnormal-termination Instana does Monitor Process Abnormal Termination, but does not seams to monitor processes that are in zombie sta...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor Delivered

Smart alerts should have a severity placeholder

With build " 1.282.1064" the smart alerts got a very useful ability to have warning and critical thresholds defined on a single smart alert. This was a welcomed change and reduce our planned alert set by half. However, we were also expecting to be...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure Delivered

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Infrastructure / Logging / Other Tracers Delivered