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My subscriptions: Application perspectives

Add tabs to show Endpoint and URLs associated with the Application Perspective

When working with monolith applications running on our WebSphere servers on our IBM mainframe Instana shows the WebSphere server names as Services. However, multiple applications run on any one WebSphere server so the server name as a service is n...
12 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives Submitted

Configurable Integration of otel_client Logs into Application/Log Messages View

Enable selective integration of otel_client collected logs into Application/Log Messages for enhanced APM experience ## Problem Statement Currently, when using **otel_client** to collect application logs (such as WAS SystemOut.log, IHS access_log,...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives Submitted

Condensed Application Perspectives overview for big environments

Hi, While implementing Instana at a major banking IT provider we face the challenge that we need to know the state of 60+ groups of banks in a quick overview. Using APs this is currently not possible. The health state is enough for us to flag grou...
3 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives Future consideration

Allow for display and configuration of App Perspectives that don't have data

We would like to pre-position application perspectives before applications are deployed. However, after doing this and clicking save the perspective cannot be viewed until data is populated. This causes confusion because it appears as if the persp...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives Submitted

Add Metadata and Tags to Application Perspectives

Application Perspectives cannot store ownership or metadata. Teams must rely on naming conventions, which do not scale and are ambiguous in Kubernetes/OpenShift environments. Requested Enhancement Ability to attach: Custom tags Owner/team fields E...
4 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives Future consideration

Dark Mode

Instana needs a dark theme for the browser.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives Planned for future release

Add the ability to 'View in Analyze' from widgets in custom dashboards.

When you create custom dashboard, there is no way to 'View in Analyze' when you identify a problem without leaving the dashboard completely. In a custom dashboard, your only options are to 'Zoom to time range' and 'Highlight on all charts'. I have...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / User Interface Future consideration

Process monitoring dashboard

We are using IBM ELM suite of applications on distributed environment and we have around 19 different applications running currently on our environment. We want to monitor that all our process on production are up and running fine. Hence we wanted...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives / User Interface Future consideration

Application based smart alerts overview that shows tiggered issues

Hi, As we are implementing Instana to monitor a rather big environment with tons of apps, devs, ops and teams, Smart Alerts seem to be a good way to reduce workload due to the generic nature of the configuration. It is unusable though as it is ATM...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives Needs more information

Need an option in Instana to save snapshots of a particular application perspective locally and compare them later with another snapshot or live one.

We need to have a option for saving a snapshots of particular application perspective in instana, save it in local. Later compare with another snapshot or the live one. Eg: We have an application perspective created as "xyz" & we have selected...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives Future consideration