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Improvements to Infrastructure & Platforms charts in custom dashboard

I set the following conditions for any user. * For the group to which the user belongs, set host A in Infrastructure DFQ in Areas of Groups settings * In the widgets of Dashboard X published to this user, I selected Infrastructure & Platforms ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 5 Future consideration

Ability to search by POD IP in dynamic focus

The use case is to identify the POD details from a Nginx downstream when it returns an error for no response from downstream service and it returns only IP of the downstream POD. However, unfortunately the current filtering with dynamic focus can ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration

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

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...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 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...
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 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...
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...
about 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

NFS share observability metrics

The customer is currently utilizing NFS shares for diverse applications, including the active-passive availability of their IT systems. They have expressed an interest in integrating the Instana observability platform to monitor their NFS shares e...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Improve usability of "Process Top List"

When I open a host dashboard, obviously the newest available “Top Process List” is shown, that is inside the selected timerange. It would be very useful in troubleshooting, if we could flexibly select the interesting timestamp of the “Process Top ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration