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Add functionality to monitor status pages of other tools and trigger events or query data from them

Add functionality to monitor status pages of other tools and trigger events or query data from them. Users will be able to keep an eye on all used thrid party services in one place.New Relic and other products also provide this service. See https:...
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Add threshold for response time NFR in custom dashboards

To be able to compare the measured response time with our given non functional requirements regarding response time it would be helpful to set a constant value for the response time threshold in a time series widget in custom dashboards.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Future consideration

Make the magnifier icon mean zoom

In any graph with a time axis, if you select a time range on the graph, there is a magnifier button which sends you to analytics and a ... menu with a clock button which zooms to the time range. I suggest you change this to have the magnifier icon...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Process-Level Configuration for Prometheus Scraper in Instana Agent (Kubernetes/OpenShift)

Summary: This idea outlines the essential need for a generic per-process configuration for scraping Prometheus data in Instana. The current missing of this feature limits Prometheus monitoring on Kubernetes and OpenShift; workarounds are causing u...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Infrastructure Map too slow

Our Instana has a lot of agents and the Infrastructure Map is not usable. It takes ages to load. We would like to have a solution to this problem, what about having a filter which let us show less agents in the Infrastructure Map? With such a filt...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Common 4 Future consideration

Show docker container name in VM view

we are running some of our applications in docker containers. We would like to see the name of the running container within the instana "breadcrumb" view. In the VM View we have the same Problem. We can see a number of Redis instances, but we can ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Network Error Logging

Modern browsers support network error logging - which is basically the possibilty to sent network issues to a distinct system. The system is to be defined via a header. This allows gathering data about connectivity issues - which is otherwise not ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Group nodes of a redis cluster in service view

We're using redis-cluster to run redundant scaleable redis services. However calls traced by java instrumentation are not mapped to a redis-cluster but to a specific redis instance. This means that redis calls for a specific redis cluster are dist...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

I would like to monitor the health of etcd in a Kubernetes/OCP cluster

As the beating heart of my cluster, I would like to be able to monitor the health metrics of the cluster's etcd database.
11 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Give Teams option to hide their services & infrastructure from other teams, in case of sensitive data (Deny-listing)

Give Teams option to hide there services & infrastructure from other teams, in case of sensitive data (Blacklisting) Futher improving the granularity of the RBAC in Instana
12 months ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Future consideration