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Status Submitted
Workspace Instana
Categories Infrastructure
Created by Guest
Created on May 13, 2025

Avoid filtering hosts by current availability on Infrastructure Map

Dear colleagues,

we have different approaches, for different dashboards.  I mean if we switch to application perspective dependency diagram, customer can see transactions and number of calls for past 24 hours even if a server that processed the calls is unavailable for 1 hour. From another perspective if we switch to Infrastructure Map we do not see currently unavailable servers on the infrastructure maps at all, on the same “last 24 hours” timeframe even if the server went down couple of minutes ago. Customer is aware of event management and uses it, they configured server unavailability events which trigger incidents. Instana Infrastructure Map is on their wall screen, the map is alive: servers appear and disappear while the map is always "green" when there are network issues.

Please consider enhancement on Infrastructure Map that allows to switch between filtering behaviours:

- filter only servers available for last minute

- filter only servers reported within "last hour" (if the host in unavailable within last minute we’d better show it with 50% transparency and if there is an offline event associated with it, it should be of the colour of associated Incident, but not filtered from map).

- filter only servers reported within "last 6 hours", "last 12 hours" and so on ... with the same visualisation approach as above.

Thank you

Idea priority Urgent