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provide Folder organization for dashboards

Currently, when you have a large number of dashboards, they are all just listed (alphabetically at least) in a very large drop down listbox. It would be very useful if there was an alternative way to manage all of the dashboards using folders or s...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Dashboards: Add variables (dropdown menu) to custom dashboards

Hello, Can you please add variables (dropdown menus) in custom dashboard so that we can have one custom dashboard on which we would be able to show same data but for different application/host/process/jvm.... Those dropdown menus should also suppo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Ignore/ suppress / downtime function for events

Currently there is function called "Maintenance windows" https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=alerts-scheduling-maintenance-windows This is lacking the functionality to prevent the events from showing up in the Events lo...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Common 0 Future consideration

On the Application Dashboard, Provide Total Wait (Latency x Calls) in the dashboards. This would definitely could be added to the top services widget.

The App Dashboard doesn't really let you know what is the busiest service or endpoint that has the most wait. The calls let you know it's busy, but you don't know if it's a problem because it could be a really fast cached call. The latency is good...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Export data from Custom Dashboards

We are using Custom Dashboards to track and improve our metrics, thanks to custom metrics. But because of 7 days retention, it is not possible to track with historical data. The only way we can manage to find is to semi automate the process with t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server , we unable to install Instana agent locally due to restriction, we want to monitor from the remote server Currently no option to add host details # PostgreSQL#com.instana.plugin.postgresql:# user: ''# p...
6 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Include feature "zone" or "label" on Serverless entity like AWS S3, fargate, etc

Customer will be able to group entities based on their own zone category. Everyone who monitor AWS resources (except host-based like EC2) will need this. Put "zone" in the configurable params ie for s3 (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observab...
9 months ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Custom Dashboards need percent utilizations

in custom dashboards, is there an option to select % utilizations instead of absolute values. As an example for memory utilization, it shows the GB utilized, but, is there way to show % of the allocated memory used.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Add Release marker end timestamp

I can create and update a release marker and it has a timestamp for start and last-updated. Is it possible to express a time range, to show up a long deployment? At the moment, our pipelines create a release marker, after all pods in a rolling upd...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Common 0 Future consideration

Infrastructure Map too slow

Our Instana has a lot of agents and the Infrastructure Map is not usable. It takes ages to load. We would like to have a solution to this problem, what about having a filter which let us show less agents in the Infrastructure Map? With such a filt...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Common 4 Future consideration