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Enable Retrieval of Current CPU/Memory Usage for Kubernetes Pods and Namespaces via REST API

Currently, Instana’s API allows fetching the CPU and memory limit and request values for Kubernetes pods and namespaces. However, it lacks the capability to retrieve current usage metrics such as actual CPU and memory usage.
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

Support for Plotting Cost Variation (% or Absolute) in Widget Charts

Request Type: Feature Request Description: As a FinOps team member, I want the ability to visualize cost variation—either as a percentage change or absolute value change—rather than only viewing absolute costs on widget charts. This would help me ...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Functionality already exists

Create event on CPU/Memory usage (K8S)

Hi, We want to configure an Instana event on Kubernetes. This event should warn us when the used memory or cpu is at a certain level on the deployment. Currenly it is not possible to create an event on this. Can you create this possibility? Thanks...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

report to be able to stack in chart instead of show one single line

it would be useful to see it in a graph not just in table
5 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Functionality already exists

Recent dashboard UI changes have removed the ability to select and copy text from tables

With the recent Cloudability Dashboards UI update, we lost the ability to select and copy text from tables, a small feature we relied on daily. It made grabbing numbers or dimensions values quick and easy without exporting or digging into reports....
5 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Functionality already exists

Instana agent to not monitor ALL Kubernetes "cluster" namespaces - ability to monitor only specific namespaces within a single cluster

Customer has all environments i.e. dev, uat, prod within the same cluster in Kubernetes. Now since Instana agent has been installed at the cluster level, it has picked up all the included nodes and namespaces This has resulted in increase of no. o...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

View the usage of K8s PV(PersistentVolume) and trigger an event (e.g., an event occurs when the PV usage exceeds 80%)

I want to monitor the usage of PV in Kubernetes and trigger an event when the usage exceeds a certain amount compared to the total usage. I would like to request the addition of this function.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 5 Functionality already exists

Being able to transform a report into a dashboard (and vice versa) to avoid having to redo the filters manually

Being able to transform a report into a dashboard (and vice versa) to avoid having to redo the filters manually
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Functionality already exists

Limit what files are copied per pod by instana-instrumentation-init

The typical duration of instana-instrumentation-init is 2 seconds. This becomes an issue during node consolidation and when pods are moved to a new node. I’ve analysed the reason for this slow performance, and it is likely due to the init containe...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6 Functionality already exists

Allow label mapping in analytics or custom dashboards

Example use: Visualizaton of kubernetes metrics e.g. for resource_limits
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 8 Functionality already exists