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Percentage calculation between two filters

Hello, I wanted to submit an idea for a feature as i came across different usecases that could be fulfilled with instana's data. The idea would be to be able to calculate a percentage between two filters and be able to :- display it on a dashboard...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Planned for future release

Ability to create custom events with more than one metric

Customer needs to alert on certain custom and build in metrics in combination with other metrics. Some use cases include the combination of custom metrics collected by Micrometer or Prometheus. Other use cases are to create "optimized/revised" ver...
over 5 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 3 Needs more information

We'd like to limit users with limited infrastructure scope can create custom events that may apply to entities withing their team's scope. Currently, there is no limitation at all

Custom events in Instana are governed by global permissions, meaning there is no granular RBAC control for this feature. As a result, users with limited infrastructure scope can create custom events that may apply to entities outside their team’s ...
9 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

provide the `ps -auxww` information for each node

Now Instana lists up the top process for each Linux nodes. But sometimes we need the output of `ps auxww` information of the node. If collecting and recording the historical output of `ps auxww` in the backend is too much data volume, provide the ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

In Infrastructure Map, change the normal status color of zOS node boxes from Gray to White

In the infrastructure map, all normal nodes are in white, other than zOS nodes which are in gray color and appears to be inactive. We integrate OMEGAMON infrastructure metric at OS level only for zOS node, not other component. As for distributed n...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Failed missing node should be displayed in the InfrastructureMap to attract attention

This is the request from the banking client after they executed the failure-recovery test of DB node. This request is not for how we can notified on the failure, but for improving the display of the Infrastructure map. -- During the test, they dis...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Add cloud provider kubernetes cluster name to the platform page.

Platform page does not match the exact cluster name in cloud provider environment.
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Needs more information

Instana UI has internal feature under Analyze infrastructure called "Graph" to visualize the Host entities combined together . I request this feature to deploy publicly.

I was on call with IBM customer for PHP Tracer showcasing the current support for AWS fargate. I used test-pink environment for the demo where they saw the graph feature of instana available only internally. They showed very keen interest to have ...
6 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

AJP port metrics

We have few applications which connects to our webserver/IHS using AJP ports, sometimes on the application side we are noticing perf issues and its impacting our webserver due to the issue with one single application we are seeing impact on entire...
6 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Frequent TCP failure Error

The Frequent TCP fails built-in event checks whether the host has an unusual high number of TCP fails. The event inputs are: Metric - Network > Fail Metric - Network > Open/s Request - We need more details to understand the error and then on...
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration