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Status Future consideration
Workspace Instana
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 18, 2024

Need databases names as services

Dear colleagues,

our customer monitors self written application which connects to local database. We had permission issue which caused to create separate service instance for every database from received calls and customer liked the presentation. When we fixed the issue we got a single service named like MSSQL@MSSQLSERVER and tables as endpoints. This way they miss database level and there is no other way to check but analyse calls. From Application perspective it gives sense to observe component interaction with databases on an application diagram because each of databases might be configured differently and be cause of delays or issues.

Please consider naming services by database names or implementation of appropriate tag for solving it with custom service rules.

Thank you

Idea priority Medium