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Naming vSphere datacenters in Instana

Customer is monitoring the vSphere datacenters in Instana. All the vSphere datacenters are reporting with same name in Instana, which leads to customer NOT able to monitor properly or confused between the vSphere datacenters. Is there any feasibil...
7 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Persistent Visibility for Recently Offline Hosts

Summary: When a host goes down in IBM Instana, an alert is generated, and the host is marked as Unmonitored in the Agent view and shown in red on the Infrastructure map. However, after approximately five minutes, the host disappears from both view...
2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Native cost allocation and chargeback by OpenShift namespace annotations and per‑agent ingest keys

SummaryWe need Instana to natively attribute and report usage to internal cost centers so we can fairly recharge costs. Our workloads run on shared OpenShift clusters; every namespace has annotations for cost center and application ID. A small num...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted