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Grafana like filtering option on SLO Dashboard

Hello, I wanted to create a SLO dashboard on instana and allow users to toggle between service using a drop down menu rather than creating 1 dashboard per service . Example via Grafana : * Grafana allows users to create variables using certain que...
5 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

Need to be able to observe all events applied to Infrastructure map

Dear Colleagues, our customer is using Infrastructure map for wall screen monitor. And they ask for ability to map all events on the zones/pilars of Infrastructure map. At the moment it looks like if something happens with pod, or application cust...
5 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Future consideration

Add metadata to events

It would be great if it was possible to add some data to the events we check in our tenant. At least, we would like to have the chance to add a long description with an explanation of the RCO, and a two-or-three length words custom label with a ca...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Place holder for "offline" Event types

We have created alert based on "Offline" event, if a service goes down. But we need to insert a "place holder" so that it shows us what is the service which went offline in subject line or heading. This will help us identifying quickly what servic...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

Make Instana redis sensor support DragonflyDB, the Redis-compatible alternative

Many customers run DragonflyDB (a Redis-compatible alternative, instead of the standard Redis.) to host their applications, which claims provide better performance, more memory efficient, simpler operations, and dramatically lower cost. Since Drag...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Instana agent and ui-backend proxy settings with no proxy var or proxy config per backend

We are trying to send our instana agent to a 2nd backend on your saas for testing a feature. But our kubernetes agents are getting timeouts to your endpoint. I assume it has to do with our network setup and that our proxy has to be used to reach y...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Future consideration

Discovery and Zero-Code Instrumentation of C++ Applications

Title: Discovery and Zero-Code Instrumentation of C++ Applications Detail: Instana agent couldn't able to do both discover and instrument the applications written in C++ with .NET Framework. We would like to discover and instrument these kind of a...
about 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 1 Future consideration

Addition of new Specific database monitoring metrics that are not part of current Instana buit in metrics

Customer have below requirements : for MSSQLSERVER monitoring. 1. Who created any login in SQL server --(Host/username should be displayed ) 2. Who deleted any login in SQL server -- (Host/username should be displayed ) 3. Password changes -- (Hos...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Not under consideration

Need to separate owner group mapping to prevent locking owners out

Hello Colleagues, we have several customers who locked out owner's user account while configuring LDAP mapping. It is one time operation, but affects all enterprise customers and often causes questions, requires several attempts in self-hosted env...
9 months ago in Instana / Access Control 4 Not under consideration

Need performance Disk and SAN data (NPIV and physical ports) from AIX Client and AIX VIOS like we have today with NMON , NJMON utility or e.g. with iostat command from AIX (See uploaded example textfile)

We need to collect permanently disk and san infrastructure because most of the problems came from this environment in the past beside typical cpu,memory, filesystem etc. This integration was included in Tivoli ITCAM or in free tools from IBM like ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration