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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

Conditional or Correlated Alert Logic in Instana (e.g., “Alert on X unless Y is high”)

We would like to have the ability to define conditional or correlated alert logic in Instana. For example, we need to trigger an alert when there are too many 404 responses on a specific endpoint, but only if the number of login requests is not hi...
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives Not under consideration

Cloning of Application Perspectives

We are in the process of creating Application Perspectives based on the namespaces in the cluster. Each cluster has 100's of namespaces and each namespaces has services ranging from 5-15. We are creating application perspectives at a service level...
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives Future consideration

Need to be able to observe all events applied to Infrastructure map

Dear Colleagues, our customer is using Infrastructure map for wall screen monitor. And they ask for ability to map all events on the zones/pilars of Infrastructure map. At the moment it looks like if something happens with pod, or application cust...
10 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives Future consideration

Show timevalue in single stat sparklines mouseover in Instana

In standard instana dashboards there are single stats sparklines. Hovering with mouse over these sparlines gives the value. It would be awesome to show also the datetime to shown value.Our UC is use e.g. standard home dashboard to see affects over...
11 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / User Interface Future consideration

Make results for service not in use in selected timerframe visible in analytic/API

We noted that the Applications dashboard in Instana displays the metrics (calls, latency, etc.) for each service, including those with no calls, regardless of the time window. However, when querying services in Analytics in Instana, services that ...
11 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives Future consideration

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