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Workspace Instana
Categories Infrastructure
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 27, 2025

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Metric and Dashboard for Server Uptime

Hi Team!
Anyway to get Server Uptime information ?
Most observability solutions have this feature, so would be very welcome Instana as well.

Having server uptime visible in dashboards or alerts provides operational clarity and helps identify issues such as: Unexpected reboots (e.g. crashes, power outages, unscheduled reboots) Stability checks (e.g. servers with 200 days of uptime vs. rebooting every week) Event diagnosis after patch/reboot

Why Uptime Display is Important:
🔍 Operational Transparency Quickly see how long each server has been online without interruption.
🧠 Ease of Diagnosis Help correlate incidents with reboots or updates.
📈 Stability History Long uptime may indicate stability — or neglect in applying patches. Short uptime may indicate problems or recurring reboots.
⚠️ Intelligent Alerts Can generate alerts if uptime is too short (indicating instability) or too long (indicating lack of reboot after critical updates).

Thanks,
Mauricio

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Sep 24, 2025

    Hi Paras, Mauricio:

    I'm interested in this feature as well.

    First of all, it doesn't seem to be working as expected. I see what looks like unavailability during the last 6 hours, but when I zoom in (15-minute interval), nothing appears. I'm not sure I fully understand the indicator.

    What does the division on the bar chart represent? What does the 98% value mean for a 1-minute period over the last 6 hours?

    Additionally, this indicator should include a summary value — for example, if the agent was down for 1 minute in the last 24 hours, that would indicate 99.93% availability. This value should also be accessible via the API.

    Lastly, we should be able to create an event based on the "Started at" system property. For example, if "Started at" is less than 5 minutes ago, it should trigger an issue or incident.


    Thanks,

    Christian



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    Paras Kampasi
    Sep 24, 2025

    HI Mauricio,

    Hope you are doing well.

    "Reporting Status" was recently made available on the host dashboard. Can you please confirm if this helps?

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