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Enhance Dashboard Table Widget to Support Application Perspectives, Services, and Endpoints

The current Table Widget (Public Preview) supports infrastructure and platform entities but does not support displaying application-level entities such as services, endpoints, or application perspectives. Customers frequently want to create operat...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Introduce Team-Level Administrator Role for Delegated Team Management

Problem Statement Instana currently provides team management capabilities only through administrative permissions that apply across all teams. Organizations with many application teams often want to delegate ownership and maintenance of specific t...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Allow Saving Filters and Analytics When Using Scoped or Contextual Views

Problem Statement Users are currently unable to save certain filters and analytics configurations when working within scoped or contextual views. During investigation, support indicated that the current behavior is not supported and recommended su...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Enable Partial Match Filtering for EUM User ID in Analytics

Problem Statement When filtering EUM Analytics data in the Website/Page Loads view, the User > ID field only supports exact-match operators (equals, does not equal, is present, is not present). This limitation prevents us from performing partia...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Log Deduplication for Instana Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector

Many applications generate repetitive log messages within short time intervals. Currently, all instances of these messages are forwarded to the Instana backend, resulting in unnecessary disk space consumption, increased bandwidth utilization. The ...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

MSAD Monitoring without DHCP Server

Customer would like to monitor Microsoft Active Directory technology without DHCP server installation pre-requisite. Customer stated that, even if its possible to install DHCP on Domain Controller, they prefer not to do it, because possible ip con...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Smart alerts linked to performance issues

Smart Alert generation allows for triggers from latency, call, throughput, custom events metrics, etc. But not from the metrics or objects shown in the "Performance Tab", i.e: frozen screen occurrences. The idea would be to extend the trigger opti...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Provide Native Governance Reporting for Application Perspectives

Admins must rely on: REST APIs External scripts Terraform exports to understand AP sprawl and compliance. Requested Enhancement Built‑in reporting: AP inventory Scope overlap Orphaned perspectives Compliance rules (naming, tags, ownership) Exporta...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Display all WebSphere Datasource Names and allow for multiple metrics for Websphere Servers

Widget with multiple metrics for WebSphere requires a “Datasource Name” dimension. What we want to achieve is the following view: Display all defined WebSphere Datasource Names and for all available WebSphere Server (or based on a filter) for mult...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / WAS Future consideration

Add Identifier/Flag for Events Suppressed During Maintenance Windows to Support Downstream Integrations

When an Instana environment is in a maintenance window, events are intentionally suppressed and not forwarded to downstream systems such as ServiceNow (SNOW). However, Instana currently provides no mechanism to identify or retrieve which events we...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

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