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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 ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Using "self time" in Smart Alerts

Is it possible to use the metric "Self Time" in a Smart Alert ? Specifically, it is about the monitoring of an API gateway. Since the response time depends on the caller and the called system, but it would be important to know if the self time of ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Filesystem specific statistics

Only these file system statistics metrics are available on the Host level Dashboard: capacity, used, leaked, inode usage. But we need additional statistics too. For examples: Read Calls Percent: Of the total number of calls made to the NFS serve...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

OS uptime

I would like to have a metric/event for this parameter. The system uptime value can indicate whether the operating system has restarted or not. The easiest way to do this is to check the uptime of the system. If the uptime of the system is less, t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need way to specify resource filtering for Built-In events

Dear colleagues, In Instana can monitor events using built-in capability for example "IBM MQ event - Channel SSL Error" or "IBM MQ Channel status". Our customer monitors it with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're in...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Show docker container name in VM view

we are running some of our applications in docker containers. We would like to see the name of the running container within the instana "breadcrumb" view. In the VM View we have the same Problem. We can see a number of Redis instances, but we can ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

WebLogic - monitor Web deployments

We are using WebLogic servers. Recently we had an incident in which a web deployment was not loaded correctly. Currently it's not possible in Instana to alert when a web deployment is not loaded. A support ticket was made and they suggested to cre...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Request to display total number virtual logical processors in Instana dashboard when Windows Server 2019 has more than 64 cores assigned.

Windows 2019 Operating system's native applications such as Task Manager can manage and maintain to show more than 64 logical processors. Instana currently lacks ability to display total number of virtual processors assigned to Windows Server 2019...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

event that is triggered in case the oracledb sensor user is locked

If user is locked, no oracleDB metrics are available.
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Kafka topic lag data is unusable in its current state

The way that kafka topic lag data is represented within Instana makes it virtually unusable. The reason is that each topic is listed independently. There is no way to apply general rules to the data. For example, if I try to create an Event agains...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

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