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Status Planned for future release
Workspace Instana
Categories Infrastructure
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 18, 2024

RELATED IDEAS

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 data from vCenter to Instana. 

 It seems like you could scope things down to permissions on a given cluster from vcenter, but it would be better if we could scope things down to resources based on Tags, or on Folders.
By that we mean that there should be a possibility to do this in the Configuration for the vCenter agent.

There should be parameters for: defining vcenter, tags to filter by, or folder to filter by.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Jan 8, 2026

    Telecom Customer has got multiple vCenters for different teams either in Cloud or non-Cloud on IT level and Network Level. Individual Operations teams are responsible for their own vCenters but not others.

    While accessing vCenters in Instana UI, users will need to see their teams own vCenters ONLY.

    Can you let us know when this feature will be available in Instana ?

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  • Admin
    Rodoljub Radivojevic
    Dec 31, 2025

    Added to the roadmap. ETA: end of 1Q/ beginning of 2Q.

    Reply
  • Guest
    Dec 27, 2024

    Yes, filter based on tags from Instana.

    It does not make sense for people to use this feature if you cant filter on tags and then also have to pay infrastructure license on all VMs. This could involve thousands of VMs, resulting in very high costs.

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