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Infrastructure

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Option to visualize value on pie chart widget instead of hover and see for Custom dashboard

In custom dashboard is there option to visualize value on pie chart widget instead of hover and see the value for Custom dashboard as it would be helpful for SRE team to visualize the dashboard.
10 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Instana support for monitoring Netezza

Customer is asking for a way to monitor traffic, load and performance for Netezza Performance Server in near real time.
10 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 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. ...
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Can we group all our custom dashboards in to folders

It would be great if we have option to group all our custom dashboards in to different folders
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

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 ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 5 Future consideration

Improved scoping on Host Unavailability Detection

As a user wanting to detect host unexpectedly going offline, I want to be able to filter the scope of this detector based on attributes beyond just host tags (e.g., to exclude a few of the worker pools from alerting using DFQ such as "entity.selfT...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 0 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 ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 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...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Future consideration

renaming DB's

We love the new infrastructure view in instana and have been using the DB monitoring in particular. We've added 30+ db's and the information seems to be fine. Please see attached screenshots. The problem is that all of the db's in the list view cu...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 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 ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration