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Ability to create alerts on aggregated prometheus metrics values over multiple K8s pods

In the prom metrics business metrics are captured for which the sum/aggregation needs to be a potential value to be alerted on.
almost 5 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 2

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

Ability to recover a workload estimate (if deleted) in Workload Planning. 

Hi, the ask here is to have an ability to recover a workload estimate (if deleted) in Workload Planning. Or as an alternative, to have an archive option instead of just delete. Thanks
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 2 Future consideration

Compare an application with different zone / csp in WLP

The idea would be to take a tag / business mapping and all the resources linked to that application, push them into WLP and be able to compare the actual costs with the cost from different regions / CSP to evaluate where it would be the cheapest t...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 2 Future consideration

Generic Entity Types creation by native OpenTelemetry (OTEL) infrastructure data instead of Otel-Collector Entity

Instana currently supports a variety of entity types—including infrastructure entities (hosts, containers, Java processes) and trace-specific entities (services, endpoints, applications). While the Instana sensors offer powerful application monito...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4

Instana console showing servers in offline state

There happend a case where a few servers had instana agent stopped running and they stopped showing up on the console infrastructure monitoring. There should be a way in the instana console where we can see the server being shown in the map or in ...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4

Failed missing node should be displayed in the InfrastructureMap to attract attention

This is the request from the banking client after they executed the failure-recovery test of DB node. This request is not for how we can notified on the failure, but for improving the display of the Infrastructure map. -- During the test, they dis...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Instana support for monitoring Netezza

Customer is asking for a way to monitor traffic, load and performance for Netezza Performance Server in near real time.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 3 Not under consideration

Ability to make placement decisions for heavy GPU workloads

Workload planning - is it able to do placement decisions for many GPU heavy instances? Current limit is 16 GPUs. Use Case: they have a cluster that has 200 H100s. We want to see best path to place to put this would be AWS in Region starting in X s...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 1 Not under consideration

To apply a common filter to all the charts in a instana dashboard

We don't have an option to apply a common filter to all the charts in a dashboard - this will be useful for adding a common filter like cluster name to all charts and reduce manual efforts
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 1 Future consideration