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My subscriptions: Application perspectives

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...
5 days 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...
15 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives Submitted

Detect and Warn on Duplicate or Overlapping Application Perspectives

Teams can create multiple APs with identical or near‑identical filters, causing: Trace association bloat Scale issues Governance problems Requested Enhancement Warning during AP creation: “This perspective overlaps 95% with AP X” Optional similari...
29 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives Submitted

Provide Visibility and Alerts for Application Perspective Association Limits

Instana enforces a limit of ~50 application perspectives per trace, but: No warnings exist No telemetry is exposed Data may be silently excluded Requested Enhancement UI indicator showing: Current AP associations per trace Percentage of limit used...
29 days 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...
29 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives Submitted