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Infrastructure

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Custom scheduling of instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts (Latest feedback from https://automati...
3 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Automated report from instana dashboards

We are trying to send an automated report from instana custom dashboard via email, but we don't see any options available in UI also don't see anything in the instana documentation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability Please help wit...
3 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

To add custom time range in instana chart filter/query

We don't have an option to add custom time range in a chart query - like need to display a chart for last 1 day but without changing time filter of the overall dashboard
3 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Multiple tabs for a custom dashboard

At present we don't have option to add multiple tabs in a single instana's custom dashboard, it will be hard to monitor by adding more number of charts within a same dashboard
3 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Redis db integration issues with instana

NatWest are trying to enable in-depth metric monitoring for the redis instances we are using from IBM by referring to this document, we observed the challenge "Monitoring of Redis Sentinel and Redis with TLS/SSL enabled is not supported." as our r...
3 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Generic Entity Types creation by native OpenTelemetry (OTEL) infrastructure data instead of Otel-Collector Entity

Instana currently supports a variety of entity types—including infrastructure entities (hosts, containers, Java processes) and trace-specific entities (services, endpoints, applications). While the Instana sensors offer powerful application monito...
17 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Needs more information

Continuous display of Cassandra Nodes data after Cassandra restart

We notice that when viewing the cassandra node where the underlying pod has been restarted, it doesn't display the data continuously even though the node is the same (i.e. same name). If I select the time before restart, I cannot adjust the time t...
27 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Monitor disk IOPs on VMs

To get events on issues with disk IOPs on VMs
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Under review

"Limited access" users should be able to use "Analyze Infrastructure"

When you want to set the permission of Infrastructure of a group with "limited access", you cannot set "Analyze Infrastructure" permission to ON. It means that "limited access" users cannot use "Analyze Infrastructure" features today. I assume tha...
4 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 1

Displaying Incorrect Assigned Virtual Cores in Instana Dashboard for Windows Server 2019

Problem Statement: The Instana Dashboard does not display the full number of virtual cores assigned to Windows Server 2019 virtual machines due to a design limitation. This creates a discrepancy in monitoring data for Windows 2019 OS, which impact...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration