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Host-Agnostic Custom Events on StatsD Metrics

Having Application-specific StatsD metrics sent to Instana is helpful when creating custom dashboards, where we can monitor the change in metrics regardless of which host is sending them. However the custom events are tied to a specific host which...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Extend the agent prometheus import with openmetrics standard

Hello, As of today, if you want to import metrics following this standard, you can't use the PROM importer despite this format is supported by PROM itsef. https://openmetrics.io/ The only alternative is to use telegraf to convert the prom metrics ...
11 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

Rate Function without the mean over time

A customer is using Instana Dashboard to display Prometheus metrics and using the Mean and Rate function. The calculation of the Rate function returns the difference divided by the time period. The customers idea is to have an option or the metric...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Docker container network utilization metrics

There is a need for a metrics/Dashboard to view all the pods which are inactive since a certain time period (last 2 weeks)
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Metric Store 2 Not under consideration