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Workspace Instana
Categories Kubernetes
Created by Guest
Created on May 2, 2022

Provide Kubernetes Persistent Volume and Persistent Volume Claim built-in metrics and Events

Provide Kubernetes Persistent Volume(PV) and Persistent Volume Claim(PVC) built-in metrics and Events.

PV/PVC metrics are essential to monitoring applications storge, however, Instana doesn't provide built-in metrics nor Events to cover the storage part of Kubernets.

Support Cases
https://support.instana.com/hc/en-us/requests/26248

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Feb 26, 2024

    Our client use case, the data is written to the PV and then periodically compressed. 

    The real size of the PV can fluctuating. It's essential to monitor the bandwidth of the size change displayed as a graph over time.

  • Guest
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    Feb 1, 2023

    Looking for IBM Cloud File and Block storage monitoring.

    • IOPS

    • Storage space

    • Utilization (%) (By container)

  • Guest
    Reply
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    Feb 1, 2023

    Looking for IBM Cloud File and Block storage monitoring.