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Infrastructure

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When sharing a dashboard publicly, add the ability to add 'Groups' as editors as well as individuals

When sharing a dashboard in Instana, you can currently ONLY add individuals as editors. Within the Instana security model itself, you have the ability to assign users to groups via group mappings. It would be nice to be able to add a group as an e...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Increase Retention Time for Mobile App Beacons

We currently only have a history of 7 days which is not even covering an entire release cycle of 2 weeks. Ideally would be a data retention time of at least 4 weeks so we can compare data over a longer period and especially with the previous rollo...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Infrastructure view - start with the choosen filter

Abilibility to set custom filter to start with it after user login
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Collect Kernel Metrics for Rhel 8+

The customer requires the ability to understand the kernel's usage of CPU per core and Memory. This information directly contributes to their ability to maintain a proactive posture with regard to their infrastructure. Customer wants to see user a...
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Technologies Reporting metrics

Technologies Reporting metrics like min, max and average on what bases they are pulling and if we want to see total data flowing to Instana backend per day which value we should consider (min, max or average) should we sum it? As mentioned in the...
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Needs to add Cluster Storage Drive Data in Instana

Team, our Dell S2D platform Cluster Storage information is not reported in Instana portal. Instana only reporting the specific Node native drives but not the cluster volumes.
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

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...
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

To add custom time range in a instana chart filter/query

We don't have an option to add custom time range in a chart query - like need to display a chart for last 1 day but without changing time filter of the overall dashboard
10 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future 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
10 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

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 ...
10 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration