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Status Functionality already exists
Workspace Instana
Categories Kubernetes
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 24, 2023

Allow label mapping in analytics or custom dashboards

Example use: Visualizaton of kubernetes metrics e.g. for resource_limits

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Joshua Lee
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    Jan 22, 2024

    Hi @Guest — does this custom dashboard functionality suit your needs here? Thanks!

  • Admin
    Joshua Lee
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    Dec 15, 2023

    I think this is possible now. Is the attached screenshot an example of what you are looking for? This comes from custom dashboards. The menu that is open is for grouping but of course these labels are also available for filtering.

  • Guest
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    Dec 4, 2023

    Hello,
    what we want to do is besides standard kubernetes metrics like CPU requests be able to group by kubernetes pod labels (which can be set to customize grouping) e.g. kubernetes.pod.label:serviceversion.
    If this can be done already in custom dashboards and also analytics e.g. to evaluate pod restart count, great.
    Best Regards, Christian

  • Guest
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    Dec 1, 2023

    Hello, can you please provide more details about your use case?

    If your Instana tenant unit runs in SaaS or if you have BeeInstana configured for Docker or Kubernetes then it is possible to chart Infrastructure & Platforms metrics.

    For example you can chart the Kubernetes Pod CPU Requests metric, see screenshot.

    Does this solve your question?

    Greetings

    JL


  • Guest
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    Nov 17, 2023

    sorry, last comment was ment for other AHA-Idea (INSTANA-I-1984)
    Please ignore and accept this comment description:
    We want to use kubernetes pod metrics like cpu resource_limit, cpu request, cpu limit in analytice or custom dashboard.

  • Guest
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    Nov 17, 2023

    in custom dashboard you can choose datasource. Currently there is no selection to access custom metrics e.g. dropwizard metrics (screenshots of application instana ui could be provided if helful)

  • Admin
    Joshua Lee
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    Nov 16, 2023

    Can you provide more details of what you are looking for here with label mapping?