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adding a UI for Custom metric collection with SQL queries

currently we are using statsD and a too many cronjobs to run SQL scripts to get custom metrics. adding a UI will help maintaining scripts, DB connections and will be easier to create custom scripts and visualize it. Current procedure: install DB c...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Access Point White/Blacklist for the WLCCollector config.

Similar to how we can disable aggregations and stations in the config files for WLCCollector, we could make a new flag for AP_WL (Access Point Whitelist) and AP_BL_ALL (Access Point Blacklist All). Some great integrations we could do is with AP_WL...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Enterprise Wireless (WIFI) 0 Future consideration

Mobile Application for Instana

The mobile app will provide end-to-end observability features from App Perspectives and Events to Analytics and Call Track Trace Views, including personalized alerting for teams and individuals. The goal is to deliver continuous insight and rapid ...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Ability to copy the entirety of an SQL query identified as truncated in INSTANA

SQL queries that are too long appear truncated in the INSTANA traces. However, for the analysis of resource-intensive queries. it is often important to access the entire query to clearly identify it. In my case, the "where" clauses of the problema...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Adding Details on Instana Grafana Plugin Legend Format

On Instana Grafana plugin's legend format, the customer would like to retrieve the infrastructure details such as FQDN name, deployment name, pod name, container name. As soon as they only able to retrieve the MAC address, it wouldn't help to make...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Custom Metrics Collection via Scripts ( Bash / Python etc.,)

From agent to execute scripts and feed the data to Instana for custom alerts and metrics.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Automation / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Ability to re-write the source in Netflow data for WLC's that managed hundreds/thousands of AP's.

We have an issue today where Cisco WLC are sending us netflow for hundreds/thousands of AP's. This makes reporting on a per site basis quite difficult. Customers who are using Cisco DNA have work arounds they can use in Cisco DNA, but it's somethi...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Enterprise Wireless (WIFI) 3 Future consideration

Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards

Instana ingests lots of data and we need different ways to represent it, one of the things that can be helpful is to have a Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Prometheus complex queries in Custom Dashboards

Hi team, I want to use Prometheus complex queries in widgets, something like this: sum( avg(container_cpu_allocation) by (pod,node) * on (node) group_left() avg(avg_over_time(node_cpu_hourly_cost[10m])) by (node) * on (pod) group_left() label_repl...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Custom dashboard - last value

Through Prometheus, we are gathering in Instana a gauge metric that shows if an instance is active (1) or inactive (0). We'd like to show this value in a custom dashboard using a 'Big number widget' or a 'Top list widget'. It would be great if we ...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Future consideration