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SLO/SLI (STAN)

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SLO window size increase

Currently windows size for SLOs is 4 weeks. Considering data retention is 13 months it would make sense to be able to select your window size to any specific size within that period. This would allow to check SLOs and error budgets evolutions over...
7 days ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Under review

SLO based alerts

We think it should be possible to create alerts based on defined SLIs and SLOs. Currently, it's not possible to alert if something is consuming an available error budget too fast over a certain time or that we consumed the error budget already com...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0

Enable beta Apdex method on self-hosted/on-prem installation.

Enable beta Apdex method on self-hosted/on-prem installation. This scenario is potentially very usefull for customer (it has on-prem installation).
over 1 year ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Planned for future release

Alerts on Apdex/SLA/SLI/SLO

Currently the data is only visible on custom dashboards It would be nice to have the option to alert on this, and also have those more prominent in the Application Perspective Overview.
over 1 year ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 2 Future consideration

Integrate Apdex

Can Apdex scoring be integrated into Instana metric scoring? Apdex is an industry standard to measure users' satisfaction with the response time of web applications and services. It's a simplified Service Level Agreement (SLA) solution that helps ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 1 Planned for future release

WIDGET SLO in LIVE mode does not refresh with values ​​defined in SLI

To be possible to check the live mode in SLO widget in a custom dashboard in Instana. Currently it is unavailable.
over 1 year ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Future consideration

Grafana template variables

The grafana plugin doesn't allow to use template variables. can you consider adding support for it?
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / SLO/SLI (STAN) 2 Not under consideration