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Infrastructure

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Alerts for JVM Total Thread count

Could you please let know if we can create an alert if the total thread count is greater than a certain value
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

Add Tabs and filter / group by options in custom dashboards

We 'd like to have Tab button and Collapse button to switch grouping and to expand more widgets in a custom Dashboard like applications (call count Http Status Code)
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration

Add Weblogic Name in filter/group fields of custom dashboards

Today the only attribute related to Weblogic Servers (WLS) is the port. It's clearly not enough. Please include server name in the Dynamics Focus search, the filter and group fields in custom dashboards widgets.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Custom dashboards: Big number percent widget

Background and context When creating custom dashboards and specifically the big number widget we are currently limited to show data from a dataset for where a specific filter can be created. There is no way to show a relation between two datasets....
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Planned for future release

Match AWS Lambda invocation timestamps in Instanta Infrastructure dashboard to timestamp reported in Lambda instrumented traces or Cloudwatch.

For AWS Lambda there is a delay of >= 10 minutes for metrics like Lambda Invocation. This is because CloudWatch makes data available with some delay. However, this is causing confusion with customers as the Lambda invocation times reported in t...
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Reference-able filter of infrastructure entities

User story As an Instana user,who is in the process of specifying a filter on a set of infrastructure entities,in order to view these entities, to detect issues on them, or to configure maintenance windows on them, I want to have a way to persist ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Alert / Infrastructure 0 Planned for future release

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

Nobl9 has difficulties when integrating Instana's Application APIs.

1) On the Analytics page, the API query button does not generate a complete JSON blob that can be used to query Instana to get the same result as shown on the UI. - No group by option in the generated JSON.- No Hidden Calls filtering in the JSON. ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Port info should be in the framework dashboard

ISBANK wants to track Port info and it should be in the framework dashboard.This is not a supported framework, we cannot collect that information.This idea for a framework sensor to collect that to our Sensor Team.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Not under consideration