Making instance groups more useful

Being able to set (and keep) thresholds on instance groups from the DS and/or group level would allow us to consolidate our “network interfaces alerting” and “network interfaces informational” datasources (which are clones except that one has thresholds and the other doesn’t) into a single DS.

Being able to use instance groups in alert rules would help because we’d have the interfaces sorted manually into either “alerting” or “informational” groups and only route alerts on the alerting ones.

Sure can!
The one that is presenting the biggest challenge for me right now is with Network Interfaces on switches/routers. We need to monitor a specific subset of interfaces to report on various statistics as a group. This is part of some very important decision making processes and right now I can make the instance groups but not really use them.

In the future, I would also see a use case for instance groups for wireless controllers. We have a controller that we use for multiple organizations we support and it would be useful to use instance groups to report on access points (and possibly more) by organization. For some of our larger orgs it would also be helpful to break out a long list of access points by specific buildings. This would be for both Cisco and Aruba wireless controllers, I’m not sure of specific datasources on these as we are focused on routing and switching right now.

@Sarah Luna for awareness on this alerting-related discussion

Could you please provide the most common example of the types of instance groups? Perhaps a specific DataSource?

Thanks