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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...
1 day ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Needs visibility into unresponsive and non-reporting agents

In environments with thousands of agents there must be a way to notify administrators when agents are no longer "checking in" or reporting information. Identifying the problematic agents among the thousands of those that were reporting involved do...
9 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

Allow Custom Events and Alerts to Evaluate Conditions Across Multiple Entity Types

Problem Statement Instana Custom Events currently require users to select a single entity type (host, service, application, etc.) when defining event conditions. Once the entity type is selected, all event conditions and metrics are restricted to ...
29 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

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...
29 days 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...
29 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Improve maintenance windows to see if more than one window is active for a specific resource.

Weeknight maintenance window Sunday-Friday 20.00-05:00 Weekend maintenance window Saturday & Sunday whole days Both these maintenance windows have the same scope. The problem occurs when one maintenance window expires and we get incidents crea...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Mapping dependency/topology between application services and MS SQL DBs when DBs are monitored remotely

We want to map dependencies/topology between application services and Microsoft SQL Server databases where SQL is configured using remote monitoring method (not local agent on DB host). Currently, the application-to-database correlation is not vis...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Under review

Folder-Level Permissions Not Discovering Resources Across Multiple Projects

Having Instana supports only one GCP project per configuration is problematic from a configuration and management overhead point of view. The Instana documentation was not clear that sub-folders were not covered and has resulted in wasted effort i...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities

Add ability to mark http status codes as errors though they are not in the 5xx range

Hi, Certain application owners in our organisation have the need to report error rates based on functional errors which are e.g. reported with a 412 (or other) http status codes. This is technically not an error and those requests are not marked a...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Under review

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