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Infrastructure

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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...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Enable Profiling for Openshift containers by environment var

Feature Request​Original ticket: We are wondering if it's possible to enable java profiling (https://www.instana.com/docs/profiling/configure-profile) just for Openshift containers with a defined env. variable.Example: com.instana.plugin.profiling...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Not under consideration

Merge/Group Availability Zones and Custom Zones on Infrastructure Map

For Customers it is beneficial to merge i.e. AWS services and EC2 instances in the group of the infra overview in Instana to understand quickly which hosts are relevant/heatly/etc. A couple of tickets was found with the similar request: https://in...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Functionality already exists

Add Missing Chart Types in Dashboard View

For the New Relic Migration, we need to be able to have the same Dashboards with Instana as we had with New Relic.We noticed that some Chart Types are missing.And sorted them by our usage:1. Table,2. Bullet,3. Histogram (dyn. Bucket def.),4. Funne...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1

Add Formulas and Operators for Calculation into Query Editor ( Dashboard and Alerting)

Use Case:----------- Create new metrics on the fly via calculation (e.g percentage / relative metrics from count numbers)- Sum up values on custom metrics / Business calculations. Desired Solution:------------------- Add Calculation options into t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Planned for future release

Custom Events for Multidimensional Data

For the New Relic to Instana Migration we need the New Relic Feature "Custom Events", which is used by the our Teams via the NR SDK to store custom multidimensional metrics. These multidimensional Metrics are used for: - adding technical Metrics, ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0

"tag prefixes" in infrastructure map

Suppose we have 3 agents with the following tags:agent1: app=shop1agent2: app=shop2agent3: app=shop1 + app=shop2When I open the InfraMap grouped by tag prefix “app=” I see two groups (shop1 and shop2) and the agent3 belongs to one of them – depend...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Infrastructure 1 Not under 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 ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Improve UI for Agent details

The new ReWe onprem deployment will be running up to 30k agents in 1 TU. The UI doesn't work with this many agents in the agent reporting and details in the UI. It fails to load. I have talked to team infra and this is a known issue and I was aske...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration

Make Context Guide information available via API

As an Instana user I would like to be able to export the information about the stack I see in the Context Guide via the API so that I can enrich the metric data we already use the API for. As an example I would like to be able to retrieve pod metr...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration